The New Deal
How the USA used public spending projects to battle through the Great Depression
Witness History · BBC World Service
June 22, 20208m 58s
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Show Notes
When Franklin D Roosevelt became President in 1933 he promised to spend his first 100 days rescuing the USA from the Great Depression with one of the biggest public spending projects in history - the New Deal.
Photo: Franklin D Roosevelt in 1935. Credit: Getty Images.