Economic and social policies and the role of leaders
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What were the three Rs of Roosevelt's New Deal?
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Relief (emergency jobs and aid), Recovery (regulating banks and industry), and Reform (Social Security, 1935).
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What did the 1935 Social Security Act do?
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It created federal pensions and unemployment insurance — the foundation of the American welfare state.
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What was Johnson's Great Society?
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A 1960s programme to end poverty and injustice, creating Medicare, Medicaid and housing, food and education aid.
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What were Medicare and Medicaid?
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Great Society health programmes: Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid for the poor.
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Define laissez-faire.
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The 19th-century idea that government should leave the economy alone to run itself.
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What welfare did the Weimar Republic introduce?
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Social rights in its constitution and national unemployment insurance in 1927 — but it could not afford it in the Depression.
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Why did economic crisis threaten Weimar democracy?
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Hyperinflation (1923) and Depression joblessness destroyed faith in the government, pushing voters towards the Nazis.
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What was the social market economy?
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West Germany's model combining a free market with regulation and welfare, so growth and fairness went together.
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Who was Ludwig Erhard?
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West Germany's economics minister who freed prices and currency in 1948 and drove the Wirtschaftswunder.
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Who was Konrad Adenauer?
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The first Chancellor of the Federal Republic (1949–63), whose stable leadership anchored West German democracy.
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What was the Wirtschaftswunder?
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West Germany's 'economic miracle' — the rapid 1950s boom that made the country prosperous and secure.
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How did an expanded state change citizens' view of democracy?
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People began judging democracy by results — jobs, pensions, security — raising their expectations of every government.
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