Describe The Major War Aims Of The Allied Powers

Compare the achievements and shortcomings of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society with Franklin Roosevelt’s New DealLyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was a continuation of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s new deal, both used government to enhance social welfare including government sponsored employment programs, government support of the arts, housing construction and Federal help for the elderly. With the new deal Federal government took the responsibility for relief and re-employment of the population. The great societyBoth programs were aimed at promoting economic recovery. The new deal sought to check unbridled competition to curb deflation. It tried to stabilize prices, wages and working hours. Although it made a very huge economic and emotional difference to the people it assisted the New Deal was expensive and failed to spur economic recovery. Similarly the Great Society involved massive expenditures that simultaneously caused high unemployment and high inflation. With a war in Vietnam there were not enough resources to support this program and it failed to spur economic recovery (Aaron, 1978).The New deal directly benefited millions of people with Federal relief and public assistance programs. Many roads, public buildings and other public works were built. This reduced the unemployment rate and the gross domestic product of the