Franklin D. Roosevelt's Impact On The United States

During his presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt, or FDR, had a major impact on how the government functions and how the U.S economy functions as well as other affairs with other countries. President Roosevelt also helped reshape how the presidency is and what they many do. With his New Deal that he implemented during the Great Depression, he went for reform, giving jobs to those who were in need of it (Whitehouse.gov Staff, 2006). He also set up a few new policies with his New Deal, which passed a few acts that would help the United States stabilize. There were criticisms that Franklin D. Roosevelt had faced as he was passing his New Deal programs, but he was able to get around them with some of them and work towards having successful programs

6). In response to this, President Roosevelt implemented a new program of reform, which introduced Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed” (Whitehouse.gov Staff, 2006, para. 6). Criticisms were also rising from both Political Left and Right sides, attacking the policies that Roosevelt has been implementing. According to Leuchtenburg (Domestic Affairs: 2017), “In 1934, conservative businessmen – and dissident Democrats like 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith – formed the American Liberty League, which tarred the New Deal as a radical an un-American assault upon the basic principles of capitalism and free enterprise” (para. 23). These criticisms would then make it harder to gain support for the New Deal, so in response to that, President Roosevelt decided to change direction with what scholars call the “Second New Deal” (Leuchtenburg, Domestic Affairs: 2017, para.

8). First expressed in his first Inaugural Address in 1933, he had also implemented a foreign policy that was made to strengthen the U.S’ economy with Latin America, treating them with respect and staying out of their affairs, both domestic and foreign (FDRLibrary, 2016, para. 20). When the U.S was getting to closer to joining the war, President Roosevelt had discussed with the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, at the Atlantic Charter conference about a few post-war ideas, one of which was a “family of nations” (FDRLibrary, 2016, para. 23). According to Leuchtenburg (2017), President Roosevelt had also kept an eye on what was going on in Europe and Asia, wanting to restrain Japan’s rising power by supporting China. Unfortunately, as Leuchtenburg states, that policy had strict limits (Foreign Affairs: para. 6). As the war neared to its end, the United States, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France, and China had all agreed that they would be a part of a United Nations Security Council, which was a special committee meant to keep peace between the world, permanently, according to FDR Library (2016, para.