s undoubtedly one of the best leaders our country has seen, but it wasn't so easy for him. Two of the programs Roosevelt instituted were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The National Recovery Administration enabled codes that called for, or encouraged businesses to agree upon fair prices. One business complained that these codes were too much like laws. Therefore, the NRA gave legislative power to the president that he shouldn't have had. The supreme court declared the administration unconstitutional. A similar case was brought to the supreme court. It said that the codes that went along with the Agricultural Adjustment Act that had required a tax were also unconstitutional. In response to the supreme court rulings FDR tried to raise the number Quinones 3of judges that sit in the supreme court from 9 to 15. He wanted to appoint justices that shared the same views as his on. The congress didn't approve of the plan.Directly following world war two the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two super powers of the world. Although the two countries were allies during the war, after the war they were common enemies. The U.S. strongly apposed the political advances the Soviet Union was making. Directly after World War 2, The Soviet Union was quickly supporting communist revolutions within the nations of Eastern Europe. Eventually, they even gained control of most of these nations. The U.S. saw the Soviet Union and communism as a threat to free life. Our government quickly developed a policy of containment toward the spread of Communism throughout the world.By the United States practicing the policy of containment, it engaged itself into what is known as the cold war. The cold war didn't contain actual fighting between the two nations. It was the practicing of their foreign poli...
