How did the decade of the 1920s show great promise economically while masking the problems that would manifest by the end of the decade? What was the key issue that FDR needed to address in his first New Deal and what programs addressed this issue (discuss these)? What was FDR’s focus in the second New Deal and what programs were implemented? How does the New Deal of the 1930s differ from the Great Society of the 1960s in terms of economically challenged Americans? How did LBJ address this issue in terms of programs? Discuss the declining U.S. economy during the 1970s under both Nixon and Carter and how they differed in their thinking and policy. Finally, what made Reagan and FDR different in their approach to the economy and why was the Reagan era often referred to as the Second Gilded Age?
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