Franklin Roosevelt: Man of the Year :: History

Franklin Roosevelt Man of the YearAssuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt doed the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, the all thing we have to fear is fear itself. When the community was at its worst, Roosevelt was at his best. In his first 100 days in office, Roosevelt pushed through many an(prenominal) new programs in order to help fix the problems of the depression. One of these programs being the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), which was established to create dams on the Tennessee River providing desperately needed jobs and hydroelectric power to the surrounding area. Roosevelt established many more programs with many different intentions. Some of these programs like the AAA (Agricultural appointment Act), which was created to raise farm produce prices. This particular program paid farmers to block land unseeded and to slaugh ter livestock, which in turn raised the prices by decreasing the supply and increasing the demand. There were more of these programs like the 300 (Civilian Conservation Corps), which helped establish work. This particular program employed many early Americans by providing jobs such as planting trees, creating parks, and making roads. These programs were often considered as make work programs by the public. The public often did not gauge that jobs such as the planting of trees were significantly important. Roosevelt on the other sight knew that by planting trees hed help bring the frame bowl to an end and ensure that it would never happen again. Roosevelt also helped reestablish the nations faith in our banking system as well. He created a banking holiday to shut down all of the banks and only re-open those that were unchanging enough to conduct business. He also created the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), to image bank accounts up to $5,000 and to ensure that a great depression would never again be a concern for Americans. After Hitler took power in Germany. Roosevelt asked to increase the amount of money spent on national defense. This created the only peacetime draft that was known to this point. Many Americans went to train with the U.S. army. The United States under Roosevelt was pronto preparing for a new war, which seemed close at hand. After the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan, Roosevelt asked congress for a declaration of war.