Franklin Delanor Roosevelt (FDR) is responsible for creating and establishing the New Deal that saved the United States after the Great Depression. The New Deal was important because the United States was in a major financial hole and needed to dig itself out. After the stock market crashed in 1929, millions of people were struggling just to find something to eat and a place to sleep. The program that FDR created allowed the United States to pick itself up and dust itself off. He created jobs and many organizations that were responsible for much of the public works and State Department organizations that we still use today. The new agreement also set the United States up for success if something financially bad happened again by establishing many built-in safeties such as federal institutions. bank guarantees, inventory regulations, social security, unemployment and other programs that would allow this country to recover. These programs allowed unemployment to fall from a whopping 25% to 1.9%, giving millions of Americans the chance to start over. (Location 146-52, American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, Kindle Version; Nick Taylor) This New Deal also came just in time for the United States to help and ultimately defeat the Nazis. Communist Party. The New Deal was launched by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Thursday, March 9, 1933, the same month he took office. (Location 5557-64, FDR, Kindle version; Jean Edward Smith) This contribution was launched due to the stock market crash twice within 5 days, on Thursday October 24, 1929 and Tuesday October 29, 1929. The New Deal n has not been launched. until nearly 3 1/2 years after the stock market collapsed because President Hoover failed to take the initiative to...... middle of paper ...... accepted by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and helped give millions of American jobs. As President of the United States, I would say that FDR wanted to do everything in his power to repair the nation he had sworn to take responsibility for. I understand from Smith's book that FDR was a very popular man of power who many agreed with and who had the support of Congress and senators across the country to do whatever was necessary to achieve this. With the support he received, FDR must have felt that people had a lot of faith in him and as long as he used good judgment and gave everything his full attention, he would do his best and the country would reap the benefits. . Page cited1. FDR, Jean Edward Smith, Amazon Kindle2. Made in America: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, Nick Taylor, Amazon Kindle