History – Between The Wars

History – Between The Wars
Research Essay
By Toni

Hoover and Roosevelt had very different ideas on how the Depression should be handled. This was almost entirely a result of two basic differences in their schemas; Hoover was a Republican, and had basically worked his way through life and saw himself as a self-made man, while Roosevelt was a Democrat, and had been born in to a rich family and a silver spoon in his mouth. As we can easily see, in many ways these two are complete opposites which created extremely different impacts and responses by each individual towards the depression. It seems that Roosevelt's and Hoover's policies were diverse in several ways.
Having taken at least partial credit for the economic boom of the Twenties when he campaigned for the presidency in 1928, Hoover had trouble personally accepting the end of the boom or understanding just how bad the crash and Depression would be. Hoover initially felt that the Depression was a temporary dip in the econo...