FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression

FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

FDR promising to end the great depression during is inauguration

"The first document featured with this article is the speech given on Inauguration Day in March 1933. It is particularly memorable for its attack on the psychology of the Great Depression. Less memorable but more enduring is the justification that Roosevelt planned to use to expand the power of the federal government to achieve his legislative objectives and thereby ease the effects of the Great Depression." - National Archives

This source is an article containing most notably FDR's inaugration speech as well as other primary sources regarding his efforts to end the great depression.

U.S. Government

1933-1939

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National Archives Identifier: 197333

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-inaugural

English

1933-1945