The middle ages in Europe were pretty terrible. Politically, kings ruled directly over groups of people, or over whole countries. The kings answered to the Pope generally. Economically, the kings and their nobles owned most of the profits of hard labor, while the townspeople after were treated to low wages. A sizable gap between classes was seen economically, and there was little room for changes in a persons economic class. Socially, the structure went like this: beggars and thieves, serfs (or non land owning peasants), knights, nobles and bishops, kings, the Pope.
He was an orphan, then became a mining engineer multimillionaire by age 30 he was a business man.
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He wanted to ride out the storm he didn't think it was the governments job to solve all the problems.
He would not provide as many government programs as people demanded. He relied on the private business sector to pull the nation out.
He brought a sense of confidence and the people could believe in the government again.
There were lines out of the bank to put money in it.
He understood that the presidency needed important images he held fire side chats, gave speeches on the radio, but didn't let people see him in a wheel chair.
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Unemployment went up by 7% in 1931, GDP dropped by 44%
Eleanor had deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills and she constantly reminded her husband of the suffering nation and encouraged him to appoint women in government.
He prepared for war he started building airplanes, tanks, jeeps sold them to Britain to help their war effort, doubled the size of the navy, and we supported Britain with weapons
