sion was inevitable. By 1931, 5 million Americans were unemployed. The great nation, which was just coming to power, seemed like it was going to die out. It might have if a man named Franklin D. Roosevelt hadn't been elected president. Roosevelt began to put in effect a plan he called the New Deal. He took the U.S. off the gold standard to help the crisis. He also passed a series of acts that helped pull the economy out of the depression. With unemployment at 11 million in 1934 such groups as the WPA, and the Civilian Conservation Corps were formed to give people work. Social Security was put into effect during this time. The economy slowly got itself back together piece by piece right up to World War II. The United States wanted neutrality in this affair but favored the allies. The U.S. sent supplies in large numbers to the allies. With Germany, Japan, and Italy in the tripartite axis the United States looked like it was going to war once again. On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor sending the U.S. into the war. Shortly after which on the 11th Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. as well. The German Nazi's were trying to become a world power, while exterminating the Jews. This was known as the holocaust. Some 6 million Jews were put into concentration camps and killed. The war with Germany went on in many fronts all over the world until April 25, 1945 when Germany Finally surrendered. The war with Japan was ended in August of 1945 with the U.S. dropping of two atomic bombs on, Nagasaki and Hiroshima causing them to surrender. Before this the world had never seen atomic warfare. The destruction was incredible as well as the impact it had on the world. With the end of the war the United Nations was being formed. The United Nations is still the main force in world affairs. Germany was divided up between France, Britain, USSR, and the U.S. There was a time of world rebuilding after the war. Cities in Europe were left in ruin...