Why did Roosevelt win the election of 1932?
I am going to look at both sides of why Roosevelt won the election of 1932. 1932 was a time of panic in American society, as they had just had the Wall Street crash which was straight after the economic boom. Hoover was the president at the time. Roosevelt had fell out of politics after he had a nasty crash and had to leave politics.
One reason why Roosevelt won the 1932 election was that Hoover was very unpopular. Hoover who was president was very unpopular in 1932 as it was thought that he did not do anything for the American public. He was regarded as a ‘do nothing president’ hover and most republicans were reluctant to change anything. He didn’t think that it was his problem to do anything about the crash that the public would have to sort it out them selves, but it was not there fault the banks had gone bust and took peoples money with them. The citizens had lost everything. Evictions were happening all over America. People had to go and live in shanty houses they called these Hooverville after the president because he did not to anything to try and solve the problems and cracks that were opening in America. There were also Hoover blankets as these were cardboards blankets that people had over them to try and keep warm, America was getting killed and the president was doing nothing about it. People thought that the way Hoover dealt with the bonus marches were horrible because of the crash people wanted the money that Hoover had promised them for fighting in the war now Hoover said no and sent his guards out to get rid of them they sprayed them with hoses and hit then with truncheons this was not a way to treat war veterans.
