"President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were designed to tackle the economic crisis on many levels:
•federal assistance for people who had lost their jobs, houses, savings, and livelihoods •job creation for the unemployed through massive public works projects •agricultural assistance for troubled farmers •manufacturing assistance for troubled industries •stricter banking regulations to prevent bank failures •creation of the FDIC to protect bank customers’ deposits •investment in the banking system to free up credit" (FDR New Deal).
"While FDR’s New Deal efforts might have helped keep the Great Depression from becoming even worse than it was, only World War II finally healed the economy. War-related exports, as well as America’s own preparation with munitions and ammunition, fired up the factories again and effectively ended the Great Depression, almost twelve years after it began in 1929" (FDR New Deal).
