Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal, an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression. Unlike his predecessor ...

The New Deal was a tremendous success, but it would take the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 for the Great Depression to completely end—America’s official entrance into World War II ...

The Great Depression lasted until 1939 when the US began mobilizing for World War II. The enactment of the New Deal and the ...

The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...

I assume this was a Depression ... of the Great Depression. It was one of roughly 200 camps operated by the Federal Transient Service, a short-lived and often-overlooked New Deal agency that ...

It is the regrettable curse of great men to be wrongly remembered both by their allies and enemies. This has long been the case with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To many on the right, he ...

Franklin D Roosevelt was a very popular president. However, as the Great Depression deepened, there was more criticism of the New Deal and Roosevelt’s leadership. A programme of reform like the ...