e two programs that FDR relied on in his first 100 days were the National Recovery Act (NRA) and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). The American people began to find strength in FDR, and support grew as 1933 came to a close, ?On the whole, despite the setbacks, uncertainties, and utter confusion of the summer and autumn months, the year 1933 witnessed a restoration of confidence in the future of the United States? (Robinson 117).At the end of his first term in 1935, FDR pushed for reform in the areas that he had established when he first began his campaign for election in 1932: unemployment insurance, pensions for the elderly, limits on work hours, and massive public projects. These accomplishments led to his reelection to the presidency in 1936, again by a landslide margin of 523 to 8. This just went to show how popular the American people had made him, and how much support they gave him. By the end of his second term Roosevelt had institutionalized the role of the federal government as the economic stimulator of the American financial system. However the programs and reforms that FDR brought to Washington did not help the country to fully recover from the depression. Instead it took World War II and its emergence into the situation, as Americans began a wartime effort to make supplies, that the US raised up out of the depression. During World War II, FDR was able to use his ?lend-lease? policy to get around previous commitments of neutrality by the US and help to arm Britain and the Soviet Union as the Germans attacked. Responding to Japanese atrocities in Manchuria, FDR enforced an embargo on American oil and steel on Japan. As the Japanese government underwent a transition and a militant leadership took place, the controversy over Japanese intrusion in China and the US embargo resulted in extreme tensions. These restrictions meant that Japan did not have enough resources to fight the war, and the militant government s...
