Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Impact On US History

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was the 32nd president of the United States of America. During his presidency Franklin D. Roosevelt changed U.S. history by coming up with the New Deals and his involvement in World War II (WWII). The New Deals were some of the main things that helped most Americans get out of bankruptcy during the Great Depression. Then with his involvement in WWII he led the U.S. troops into war. Some of the acts he did at that time still have an impact on U.S. history today. The first New Deal was a series of laws that were created to help get the U.S. out of the Great Depression. There was a total of three pieces of legislation created: NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act), TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), and AAA …show more content…

In the interests of raising prices and generating profits, taxes, and investments, the government was prepared to tolerate temporary recourse to state-approved cartelism proportionately, industries were required to engage in collective bargaining, thus placating the government’s powerful constituency in organized labor by the greatest legal encouragement it had yet received from Washington.
Title II was a 3.3 billion allocation for an emergency Public Works Administration, which would build and repair federal buildings, roads, bridges, dams, and other assets and facilities, employing as many as two million of the unemployed.
Title III was presented in vague form, to be filled out by the congress to provide some offsetting revenue for the billions to be spent in Title II. Since this was a radical departure for Roosevelt’s balanced-budget pledges, especially the speech at Pittsburgh on September 19, 1932 the President went public with the distinction he had been trying for several months to sell privately, and referred to these expenses as …show more content…

By March 10th, the governor told FDR it was impractical to move the unemployed to the proposed land. Roosevelt summoned Ickes and Henry Wallace to the White House for an emergency meeting. He wanted to discuss a bill about enlisting 500,000 men for work on government projects by the middle of summer. Within eleven days Roosevelt sent a message to congress. It was designed to tell the country that relief and jobs were on the way. Thanks to the CCC supporting young workers the Public Works Administration aimed to helping the middle-aged unemployed. Roosevelt knew that large scale projects would take years to get off the ground. Other tasks like clearing trails, draining swamps, planting trees, fighting forest fires, and building cabins in national parks and forests could begin immediately. “Roosevelt was told repeatedly that this was going to be an impossible task for all sorts of reasons.”6 Even Wallace who was known for his dreaminess didn’t think it was possible, as he noted that “the forestry service couldn’t possibly handle such a large group.”7 FDR wanted

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