30 September 2012
The New Deal Helped end the Great Depression The New Deal had a primary role in helping end the Great Depression, but it didn’t actually end the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic collapse in the decade after World War II. The stock market crashed in October of 1929, causing stockholders to lose billions of dollars. Banks shortly started closing and people lost their savings, causing people to have no money or jobs. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in office from 1933 to 1945, had a plan to help end the Great Depression and get people back on their feet, called the New Deal. The New Deal helped youth agencies and income distribution, provided everyone with medical attention, and produced programs to help people recover from the Great Depression hardships. The New Deal helped youth agencies pick up and provide jobs and support for the children affected by the Great Depression and unemployment. Although the Roosevelt administration eventually came to respond to the plight of the young, it did so quietly, after first subsuming it within the vast, amorphous problem of “unemployment.” There were …show more content…
A vast majority of his plans within the New Deal were carried out and successful, while a few crumbled. The primary focus of the impact the New Deal had was that a lot more people had jobs, medical coverage, and money in their pockets. It’s apparent that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a successful president and made a lot of people happy because he is the only president who has served more than two terms in office (March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945). The New Deal helped youth agencies and income distribution, provided everyone with medical attention, and produced programs to help people recover from the Great Depression