How far had the New Deal been successful by 1941

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How far had the New Deal been successful by 1941?                       

    During 1929 many people invested in the stock market, this led to the stock becoming less and less valuable, this eventually led to the Wall Street Crash. The current Republican President, Herbert Clark Hoover was not seen to be doing enough so he was succeeded By President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’ (FDR) , who would end the depression with his  ‘New Deal’. Roosevelt holds the unique distinction of being elected four times by the people of America. Roosevelt's place in American history has been fixed due to the New Deal but also because he rose to the highest position in America despite having a crippling cardiovascular illness. In his first 100 days he passed masses of laws to get the U.S out of the depression. The 3 aims of the New Deal were Relief, Recovery and Reform.

    In my opinion the New Deal could have been far more successful if Roosevelt had chose to continue his level of investment, maybe if he even increased it. Roosevelt stopped ‘priming the pump’ and this led to the ‘Roosevelt Recession’. I believe that by 1941 The New Deal could have succeeded in completely reviving the U.S economy, and it would not have taking the Second World War to end the depression, had it not been for FDR stopping his spending. The alphabet agencies could have done better than give people useless jobs. Roosevelt also did little to help farmers and black people who were already bad off before the depression.  Farmers were not well off because of the tariff wars, and the ‘dustbowl’. The tenant farmers suffered the most, as they didn’t own any land and the black people who were suffering because of their lack of civil rights at the time. The New Deal did succeed in lowering employment to a degree, and partially reversed the spiral of depression, and before he lowered the level of spending the economy was well on its way to the pre-crash levels.

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     By 1941 the ‘New Deal’ had both its successes and its failures. FDR poured tax payers money to reverse the ‘spiral of depression’, which was known as ‘pump priming’. He had used the ‘alphabet agencies’ to use get the skilled and unskilled unemployed workforce to work on federal funded projects. The Public Work’s administration (PWA) built roads, bridges hospitals and schools. This was intended to give the workforce more money so they could spend more if they spent more there would be more demand for products and so more jobs, and therefore the government would recoup their losses ...

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