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FDR The Great the Statesn President Jacob WagmanProfessor Christy ChapinHIST102Due 25OCT12 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is easily the best president of his era. He had the single best approach to the economic problems and neighborly problems that followed the economic problems of the time. numerous people would say that he couldnt institute decisions for himself because of how he was constantly ever-changing his ideas but in truth, his plan was to do whatever it took to work and he was going to make or sothing work. In case it was not known, FDR was a fighter. He never gave up on the regular army or stepped atomic reactor even after being stricken by polio.A lot of his ideas came from his brain trust which was comprised of many advisors of t proscribed ensemble different top rounds and political beliefs. He was constantly keeping the American people informed with the estate of the organization and scrimping through a new invention popularly known as the radio. He would go out of his office to wait on the banks and would do anything to dig the US out of the pit that make clean had dug and did nothing reall(a)y to dig them out other than laying the foundation for FDR to bring America back from the brink of complete collapse.Using the foundation laid by Hoover many Administrations, Acts, and even virtually Corporations were put in place and somewhere welcomed and others werent, but FDR took all of the success and failures and made sure it worked out for the American people and the world when WWII came around. His foreign policy in WWII was very much respected and nevertheless is today because FDR would not let the crimes of others go unpunished. All in all everything FDR did was for the best of this country and the way he handled WWII both domestically and overseas.When FDR was elected into office he was left with quite a flub left by Herbert Hoover, but Hoover had left a very nice foundation to get FDRs famous New Deal. Programs during this time f ocused on trying very hard to jockstrap bring the US out of the Great Depression by working on reform, recovery, and relief efforts. Many of the programs put together by FDR came from his brain trust which was FDRs circle of advisors which ranged from democrats to re habitualans and even to progressives. This is why it seemed interchangeable his ideals were always changing because he was trying to here from verybody to see which would work best to pull the US out of the muck. He started with starting a bank holiday in which every bank in the US was forced to close so that government officials could come into each of the banks and decide if the banks were suited to re-open for public use. In order to guarantee the funds people put into the bank for safe keeping, the Federal cling Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created and this gained the publics usage of the banks again because they could not possibly lose their money because of a bank failing because the government backed up t he money 100%.The Securities and Exchange relegation Act was also implemented to regulate the stock mart so that another(prenominal) stock market crash could be avoided. Many people disagreed with these economic policies but if they were active they could see that these two government sectors are still in use today because of how effective they fox been throughout the years. FDRs following(a) goal was to provide jobs for all the people who were unemployed, which was about 25% of the entire population.Programs to fix this problem were such(prenominal) like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which leased young adults around 18 to plants tress and help the National Parks, the Public Works Administration (PWA), which contracted with private businesses to build roads, schools, hospitals, and other government-esc buildings, the Tennessee vale permit (TWA), which was set up to build dams a presbyopic the Tennessee River, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was an a dministration that directly hired people and also white collar workers such as teachers and nurses, and they also trained unskilled workers so they could perform specific tasks.Looking back nobody could even argue with these programs because it provided thousands of jobs for the unemployed which did much more(prenominal) dear than bad. There was some controversy over the TWA forcing people out of their classs but it was for the good of the entire Tennessee River Valley so it was more necessary than anything. ,Many programs were welcomed with open arms like the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) which tried and true to lower the foreclosure rate and made more long term mortgage loans that made owning a house more possible, but there were programs like the National Recovery Administration (NRA) which cherished to eliminate rival so all businesses could thrive, but it ailed very oorly because the bantam businesses were still eaten alive by the bigger companies, and another unp opular program was the Resettlement Administration (aka Federal Security Administration), tried to make farming more like the USSR in which farming was more collective and controlled by the government but the program was met by much resistance both from Farmers and the Chamber of Commerce. but if it had not been for these failure than FDR would not have been able to come up with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), which was the government paying farmers not to become so that the goods on the market could be purchased at a slightly higher price to movement to stimulate the economy. At stolon the Supreme Court shot down the AAA, but it was later brought back by congress in 1938 because it actually helped farmers and made them happy.During the start of WWII when it was strictly in Europe and China, the regular army became extremely isolationist to the point where they even pulled out of Haiti and Nicaragua so that they were involved in as little foreign conflict as po ssible. The USA even refused to sell weapons to Great Britain and France because they didnt want to guess getting pulled into another World War again. While the warfare kept going on the USA passed acts such as the Neutrality Acts which banned US citizens from traveling on ships from foreign nations that were in war with another country and they banned selling weapons to foreign nations.FDR pleaded with congress to allow the USA to at least(prenominal) attempt to assist the allies fighting in Europe because they were just that, the USAs allies. But congress kept turning down FDRs pleas for help until he managed to convince congress to allow for the first Military draft and for the US to start building and selling arms to the Allied powers. This was when FDR decided to mental test for a 3rd term which he won by a landslide because people apothegm how he had started to help the economy grow bit by bit. In 1941, FDR got the Lend-Lease act to be approved.The Lend-Lease Act made it p ossible for the US to fully help the Allies by natural endowment them arms and munitions. In order to provide these items for the Allies more jobs had to be created to produce the weapons and so thousands of jobs were created which helped the economy out that much more. The Lend-Lease Act also stopped all trade with Japan in an attempt to discourage them from continuing the atrocities they were committing over in China. This unfortunately provoked Japan into launching a preemptive strike on Pearl Harbor where over 2000 service men lost their lives and about 200 aircrafts were destroyed and 18 naval ships were lost.FDR immediately requested a declaration of war in his famous address to congress in which he quoted the attack on Pearl Harbor as a day that will live in infamy. FDRs policy on isolationism and then full-scale war is an extremely well thought out strategy considering the position the US was in. He wanted to help GB and France desperately but Congress wouldnt help him at all. But he pushed and pushed till he finally succeeds and ultimately, helped the Allies push to victory and overcome the most outstanding odds against them.Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not only one of the best Presidents the USA has ever had, but he also had some of the most ingenious ideals for how to fix the economic crisis the US has ever faced, and then later one of the mop crisis the world has ever faced in World War Two. His plans or creating jobs worked unlike those of Hoover, and even though some of his programs failed, he learned from the failures only to make the successful programs even more helpful and long lasting for the US.To top his economic policies, his policies on World War Two were even better because he found a way to stay isolationist at the beginning where he could still make jobs by avoiding the war and then joining the war when it was absolutely crucial the US did, which ultimately cease up pulling the USA out of the Great Depression even if he were not alive to see them win the war and there to see the Great Depression end due to all the good he did for the USA. Nobody can argue that his ideals and policies were anything shy of some of the best of any president.