Roosevelt's Drought Condition

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Ideas that slowly got the U.S. out of the Depression. So far, we know that Herbert Hoover was the president of the U.S. until 1933, and that Franklin Roosevelt took the power in 1934. I do not actually want to give all the credit to Roosevelt, because Hoover did anything that was in his power to improve the situation of the country, and as it is mentioned in the “Drought Condition” section of this research, president Roosevelt did not know about the situation that farmers in the “dust storms” regions were living until 1939, which is almost close to the date that the Great Depression is considered over. However, there are some things that president Roosevelt did such as sending people to the military once a second world war was decreed, and according to Folsom, B. W. “During the war more than 12 million …show more content…

The History.com Staff New Deal, declares that Franklin Roosevelt created the WPA, which stands for “Works Progress Administration”, and this organization produced jobs such as construction of buildings, post offices, educational institutions, streets, highways, bridges, and parks, and it gave jobs to different people with different professions or skills. In addition, in August 1935, the Social Security Act was created, and this organization, which still remains, insured the unemployed to protect dependent children, and also the disabled. After some jobs were given, and the economy was raising, the “United Auto Workers” (2009) installed a GM plant in Michigan, which easily spread throughout the country and brought more employment. And in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Habor, the U.S. joined the war, and for that, the U.S. needed to be prepared and start making more resources for the war since the Japanese destroyed part of it, and it gave more employment (2009). Since then, the Great Depression is considered over, and more employment, later on, was provided until the country’s