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Submitted by GPBurdell on April 19, 2008
Category: American History
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” is the “sequence of programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving reform to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression.”1 But what was more explicitly contained in this “New Deal” and what spurred its creation? What did this plan accomplish? This essay intends to briefly examine the history leading up to the New Deal, discuss factors that lead to its creation, and examine what it accomplished.
In the years prior to World War I (WWI) many parts of the world had been experiencing some of the fastest economic growth in history. In the United States, this growth continued through WWI as industries began to produce greater quantities of goods for the war effort taking place in Europe. After the war ended, the overall global economy began to decline. The worst year of this economic recession was with the steep decent of the global economy in 1921. The recession was largely caused by the termination of wartime production. This factor, combined with troops returning home to re-enter the workforce in jobs that were largely unavailable, was responsible for a high level of unemployment. Economists also argue that wartime inflation caused by government borrowing and printing of money to pay for wartime efforts helped lead to this recession. This relative low point was short lived however as industries learned to adapt to changing conditions and began to produce new products and services. With this reignited economic growth, the economy started to rebound and showed a consistent growth from 1922 until 1929, but still had not returned to pre-war levels.2
On October 29, 1929, a day known as “Black Tuesday,” the U.S. stock market experienced a severe crash; a crash that arguably sparked The Great Depression. This crash caused a panic among Americans and they rushed to banks to withdraw their savings fearing their money would be lost with...
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