In November 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president. During his first term, he introduced a policy known as The New Deal. The New Deal consisted of a series of laws enacted to help get America back on its feet. The laws that came with The New Deal were known as the “Alphabet Soup”. Some of the laws that were in the alphabet soup were the CCC, CWA, and the WPA, which, according to the author of FDR’s Alphabet Soup on ushistory.org, all focused on trying to get the unemployed back in the work force. There were many other agencies that helped as well, such as the NRA, which set a minimum wage and maximum hours of labor for workers. It also abolished child labor (U.S. History Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium). Even with all these agencies working on curing America, The New Deal did not end the Great Depression. There was still unemployment and it did not end poverty either. The New Deal was effective in the short term, but not in the long …show more content…
Franklin Roosevelt was still president, as he was favorable amongst the American people. In the early 1940’s, other countries started to fight each other. This came to be known as World War 2, and this is what helped end the depression. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt officially entered The United States into World War 2 as part of the Allied Powers. This sent many men into the military to fight and the factory businesses started switching to make supplies for their army, such as guns, ammo, tanks, planes, and many more. When we had won World War 2, this sent America’s economy booming, and there was no more