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Great Depression Dbq

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The Great Depression 1929-1942 was the economic downturn. On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed wiping out millions out of work. The economic slowed down and then it shrinked in size. It then progressed to a recession and then to a panic. This progressed over the years and a series of bad decisions to slow down the economy into depression. Which then led to WWII.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in 1933, he was a democrat. He also had a plan to help the US get out of the depression. FDR promised Americans the government would help them directly- unlike Hoover. FDR had the complete opposite idea of Herbert Hoover. FDR believed the government should help the people. He called it Prime the Pump. Which helped the people first and then it would help the businesses. In his First Hundred Days he enacted many new programs which gave people direct aid and increase the role, size and power of the Federal government. These programs are called the New Deal. They helped Americans a lot. It got people employed and off the streets and back to normal. …show more content…

The starting of WWII gave people work. The U.S. needed warfare materials so the factories opened up and people were hired to work. Therefore helping us get out of the depression. Herbert Hoover was the 31st president who was trying to get the U.S. out of the depression. He believed that the government should not help the people but charities should. The problem with that was no one was donating to the charities because no one had anything to give or donate. Hoover used trickle down economics. Which meant he would help the businesses first and then it would eventually lead to the people, his idea was a long term plan and they needed a short term plan to help the people. Herbert Hoover believed helping the businesses would improve the economy. His plan did not

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