Prior to FDR’s New Deal, the federal government’s role in the nation’s economy was in question. However, the agencies and acts enacted during the New Deal cemented the government’s role and established the modern American system of government. One of its most important products is the ...
New Deal programs include Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.14 Many argue that World War II, not the New Deal, ended the Depression. Still, others contend that if FDR had spent as much on the New Deal as he did during the...
Although the U.S. remained neutral until 1941, the military was still taking measures to train and plan for mobilization. FDR in 1939 proposed the Cash and Carry policy, which replaced the 1936 Neutrality Acts and allowed the sale of military technology and materials to nations at war. [...