F. D. Roosevelt's Impact On American History In The Post-Civil War Era

While trying to climb out of the horrendous conditions of the Great Depression, the American people were fed up with their Republican President Herbert Hoover. They were looking for someone to fix America. People were starving to death, homeless, jobless, and the list of monstrosities goes on and on. A Democrat named Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised the fix American’s were looking for and ran on three R’s: relief, recovery, and reform. He would be elected four times in a row over the next 12 years; creating several alphabet agencies that would change America forever. The president who has had the most impact on American history in the post-Civil War era is Franklin D. Roosevelt. President F. D. Roosevelt laid out a New Deal within his first 100 days in the office. He temporarily closed banks, implemented the Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA) to regulate transactions, started the Glass Steagall Banking Reform Act (Banking Act of 1933) to protect group savings deposits, and began the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to insure individual savings deposits. He also implemented the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) where young men worked on environmental projects, began the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) to help the states, and opened the Civil Works
Administration (CWA) to help with projects in the cites. There are many more alphabet agencies he executed: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), National Recovery Act (NRA) , Public Works Administration (PWA), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA). His Second New Deal came along which involved deficit spending, Work Progress Administration (WPA), Social Security Act (SSA), National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
He was getting things done and showing great organizational skills and effort in trying to help American’s. He was made popular by the Fireside Chats he broadcast. American’s felt he was speaking directly to them and by listening on their radios at home on a regular basis, it was as if he were in their homes with them. His alphabet agencies were working and producing results and America came out of the Depression a better place. Because of the great number of agencies he started, and many still being used today, Franklin D. Roosevelt has had the most impact on this country; and many continue today.
What event in post-Civil War America has had the most important impact on American culture or political, economic, social or religious institutions? Adolf Hitler, leader of Germany, and his disturbed quest to take over the world to achieve a master race was one of the rulers’ psychotic opinions that triggered World War 2.
Millions of people all over the world died because of his sick voracity. His forces had already taken Poland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Italy, and they needed stopped. Nazi forces were trekking through the Soviet Union for what they thought would be a quick take-down. Fortunately for the rest of the world, they were finally stopped. Hitler’s Nazi Germany being defeated in World War 2 has had the most important impact on American
culture. Had Hitler been successful in taking over the world everything we know and how we live would be vastly different. Our country wouldn’t be a free democracy, would probably have a different name, and the world would’ve lost millions more lives by his demoniac hands. Hitler’s troops invaded the then Soviet Union in June of 1941, breaking the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and attacked. While capturing Soviet soldiers, the Nazi’s also killed many and most certainly anyone they thought would retaliate, such as Soviet Jews. This escalated to include women and children, and the gathering up of millions of German Jew families to be murdered as well. The Soviet Union fought back with more ferociousness than Hitler had planned for and the Nazi troops realized that they were not equipped to survive a Soviet Union winter. With the Soviet’s invading from the East and America invading from the west, Germany surrendered against Hitler’s orders and he committed suicide days later. If it weren’t for Germany losing that battle in 1945, the world as we know it would be dramatically different, especially in America. Millions more people would’ve been killed as he invaded other countries and decided that other races weren’t worthy either. In my opinion, Germany surrendering has had a major impact on America and who we are as a country today.