Mobilizing for World War 2 did more to rectify the Great Depression than all of the programs in effect in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Date Submitted: 09/19/2004 00:38:45
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (565 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (565 words)
The years of the Great Depression were a time of great change in American
society. New reforms were an attempt by President Franklin Roosevelt to relieve
unemployment, poverty and alter the economy to bring the Great Depression to an end.
However, it was not until the 1940's after America's involvement in World War II
that the effects of the depression ended. While these new policies did help to prevent the
economic crisis from becoming any …
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…and there
were apporoximately 15,000 work stoppages during the war.
Reforms, implemented in the early 1930's by Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to
solve the economic crisis in America by other means. For this reason, the New Deal had
few lasting impressions on society and did not provide a solution to the Great Depression.
Instead it was America's entry into World War II and the following period of prosperity
that lifted the struggling society out of crisis.
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