2006-12-20 01:32:19 · 9 answers · asked by andi s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Hoover was president when the Great Depression began. Roosevelt became president during the Great Depression.
2006-12-20 01:36:07 · answer #1 · answered by Sloane 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. A central figure of the 20th century, he has consistently been ranked as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents in scholarly surveys.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Roosevelt created the New Deal to provide relief for the unemployed, recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic system. His most famous legacies include the Social Security system and the regulation of Wall Street. His aggressive use of an active federal government reenergized the Democratic Party. Roosevelt built the New Deal coalition that dominated politics into the 1960s. He and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, remain touchstones for modern American liberalism. The conservatives vehemently fought back, but Roosevelt consistently prevailed until he tried to pack the Supreme Court in 1937. Thereafter, the new Conservative coalition successfully ended New Deal expansion, and closed most programs like the WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps, arguing that unemployment had disappeared
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt
2006-12-20 01:38:46 · answer #2 · answered by $Sun King$ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Herbert Hoover was! He then lost to F.D.R. because Hoover had no plan to get out of it. Roosevelt lifted the country out of the depression.
But F.D.R. was president through most of the dark days of the depression. Hoover was there for the stock market crash in 1929 until 1932 when Roosevelt replaced him. The country really didn't start to climb out of the depression until about 1935. The "New Deal" which F.D.R. created helped to get people back to work.
2006-12-20 02:15:16 · answer #3 · answered by tjinjapan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
President Herbert Hoover
2006-12-20 01:34:45 · answer #4 · answered by martha 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Franklin D. Roosevelt
2006-12-20 01:37:44 · answer #5 · answered by Runeth 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the father of the modern bureaucracy.
2006-12-20 01:34:58 · answer #6 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Herbert Hoover.
2006-12-20 01:34:45 · answer #7 · answered by GOMEZ LOPEZ 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hoover at first, then FDR with his New deal, really helped out the depresion.
2006-12-20 01:39:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
FDR and he almost made it to the end of WWII
2006-12-20 01:40:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋