World War I to Vietnam in America

After World War I, the “War to End All Wars”, the United States attempted to return to normalcy. Citizens wanted to live the American dream and not be barred by war or poverty. The 1920s was a prosperous decade, and the country felt good about itself. The standard of living was great, there was peace, and America was the most powerful nation in the world. With the Stock Market Crash in 1929 came The Great Depression . It was devastating to the U.S. economy, and more importantly overwhelmed the morale of the American people. Overcoming the high rate of poverty, unemployment, and other components of a depression would prove to be no easy task. The New Deal was a radical change that the country would undergo to attempt to solve this problem, and just one of the many controversial issues that this nation would endure with regard to how to solve domestic conflicts. Competing ideologies would play a critical role in American culture in the coming decades.

Unemployment and poverty swept through the nation in the 1930s. The burden of solving this problem was on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was charming, politically savvy, and Americans trusted him. These components helped in give him the courage to create such a new and extreme system like the New Deal. This called for huge government expansion as economic relief was to be delivered to America’s citizens. The most important aspect of this program was how it put people to work, instilling hope and restoring the nation’s confidence.

The New Deal played a significant role in banking, regulating markets, financial aid, and putting citizens to work. All of these policies were brand new and drastically changed American understandings of government’s role in society. The president made clear the urgent nature of some of the problems the nation faced. With regard to the poor farmers, Roosevelt said “If farmers starve today, we will all starve tomorrow.” With new policies implemented the