With the termination of World War II in 1945, millions of military veterans flooded the United States with hopes and ambitions for the future. However, these veterans required assistance in order to achieve their goals. Long before the end of the war, the thirty-second president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his advisors were already planning post wartime programs to assist veterans in an attempt to correct the mistreatment of war veterans throughout history. Over the course of the one hundred and fifty years between 1780 and 1930, governmental assistance provided to veterans was limited to pensions awarded to Union soldiers after the Civil War, land grants bestowed on Revolutionary War Veterans, and cash bonuses endowed on World War I doughboys (Reagan, “Roosevelt Signs”).
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The GI Bill provided unemployment payments, loans for the purchase of homes, farms, as well as businesses, tuition and stipends for higher education (Reagan, “Roosevelt Signs”). After returning from the war, veterans desired an opportunity to achieve the American Dream, many components of which, such as a steady job and ownership of a house, were more attainable to veterans through the assistance of the GI
The GI Bill provided unemployment payments, loans for the purchase of homes, farms, as well as businesses, tuition and stipends for higher education (Reagan, “Roosevelt Signs”). After returning from the war, veterans desired an opportunity to achieve the American Dream, many components of which, such as a steady job and ownership of a house, were more attainable to veterans through the assistance of the GI