Goodwin 1-2 Breakthrough

•  America's response to World War II was the most extraordinary mobilization of an idle economy in the history of the world. 
• Government expenditures helped bring about the business recovery that had eluded the New Deal. 

Goodwin 1-3 Breakthrough

• The war brought full employment and a fairer distribution of income.
• The war brought the consolidation of union strength and far-reaching changes in agricultural life.

 Goodwin 1-3 Tough-times

• The mobilization included the ideological argument that the war was being fought for the interests of common men and women, social solidarity extended far beyond the foxholes.
• The war also made us more of a middle-class society than we had been before.

 Goodwin 3-4 Economy

• Historians, economists, and politicians have long wondered why this remarkable social and economic mobilization of latent human and physical resources required a war
• World War II provided the ideological breakthrough that finally allowed the U.S. government to surmount the Clutch Plague.

 Goodwin 4-5 Employment

• By 1938 he had lost his working majority in Congress, and a conservative coalition was back, stifling the New Deal programs.
• For a time the government became the purchaser of one-half of all the goods produced by the American people.

 Goodwin 4-6 Breakthrough

• The stereotype of FDR as a regulation-lover flies in the face of experience in the 1940s, when Roosevelt ended his cold war with business. 
• Eleanor Roosevelt was still much more anti-business than Franklin, and was often furious at him.

Goodwin 6-7 World War 1

• After 1940, antitrust enforcement virtually shut down.
• Liberals were upset that ALCOA was a big, bad monopoly. 

 Goodwin 6-7 Break the Bank

• Basically, Roosevelt made the decision that he had to mobilize the proprietors of the mines, the factories, and the shops.
• The government developed new sources of supply for raw materials and created quick mass transportation.

 Goodwin 1-2 Red Scare

• Congress could provide the money, but it could not build the planes, design the tanks, or assemble the weapons.
• When Ford refused, Roosevelt cancelled a lucrative government contract. 

Goodwin 1-2 FDR

•  The government also went into the business of producing synthetic rubber and aluminum, as well as other emerging industries, and helped stimulate new technologies.
• But on other regulatory issues FDR compromised.