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History, Abyssinia - key info, Summer 1956 - Poland, October 1956 -…

- - - - Positive : handled billions of dollars of public money, and yet no corruption. Harold Ickes tapped phones of his employees and employed African Americans
      - Negative : the new deal divided the USA. FDR was accused of being a dictator, and Ickes and Hopkins accused of being anti-business
    - - Positive : labour unions strengthened by NRA and some combined to form CIO in 1935 - large enough to face up to big businesses
      - negative : big businesses remained immensely powerful even after government’s attempts to support trade unions and treated trade unionists with suspicion
    - - Positives : projects such as TVA brought work and technological advancement in deprived areas, as well as useful structures such as schools, roads and airports for the longer term
      - negatives : the underlying economic problems were not solved by the New deal. America recovered more slowly than European economies in the Greta depression and had six million implored in 1941
    - - Negatives : faced racism. CCC was racially segregated, mortgages not given to black families in white neighbourhoods and many domestic workers - mainly black women - were not included in the SSA
      - positives : approx 200,000 AAs gained benefits from the CCC and other new deal agencies, as well as other housing projects
    - - Negatives : Frances Perkins viciously attacked in press, suffered anti semitism. Local governments introduced special conditions and qualifications to avoid paying social security payments to women
      - positives : Frances Perkins was a key figure in making the Second New Deal work, and was part of the New Deal helping women to achieve more prominent positions, as well as Eleanor Roosevelt
- - - - Japan
        
        Stalin agreed to enter war w. Japan post Ger surrender
      - Germany
        
        divided into four sections : US, British, French and Soviet
      - free elections
        
        countries liberated from occupation by Nazis would be able to have free elections to decide their governments
      - United Nations
        
        all three leaders agreed to join the UNO to sustain peace after the war
      - War Criminals
        
        all three agreed to hunt down and punish German war criminals responsible for committed genocides
      - Eastern Europe
        
        Soviet Union had suffered badly in war
        Stalin wanted assurance of security from invasion
        big three agreed that Eastern Europe could become a 'soviet sphere of influence'
    - - Poland
        
        Stalin wanted borders moved
        the USSR's border moved into Poland, and Poland's border to be moved in Germany
        
        Churchill did not approve of this - didn't have much power, as Red Army controlled Poland and Eastern Germany
        
        Roosevelt - also unhappy
        persuaded by Churchill to accept
        on condition that USSR would not interfere in Greece, where Britain were resisting a communist takeover