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Essay on Three most significant events in American History since 1865
One of the most significant events in my point in American history since 1865 is the when Franklin D. Roosevelt became the president of United States in 1932. Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. His presidency which spanned twelve years was unparalleled, not only in length but in scope. FDR took office with the country mired in a horrible and debilitating economic depression that not only sapped its material wealth and spiritual strength, but cast a pall over its future. Roosevelt’s combination of confidence, optimism, and political savvy all of which came together in the experimental economic and social programs of the “New Deal” helped bring about the beginnings of a national recovery.
As historian Clarke Chambers has noted, “Of all Franklin Roosevelt's official family, none perhaps had greater influence on the shaping of domestic policies than the spirited and pragmatic Frances Perkins.Perkins was a social worker by profession. She had also advised Roosevelt while he was Governor of New York. Therefore it was no real surprise when she was appointed in late 1932 as Secretary of Labor in the Roosevelt Administration.
The reason why I considered the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt to be an important event for American history was because there were many excellent foreign policies that he came up with that literally changed the course of American history and its position at an international level. The rejection of the League of Nations treaty in 1919 marked the dominance of isolationism in American foreign policy. Despite Roosevelt's Wilsonian background, he and his Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, acted with great care not to provoke isolationist sentiment. The main foreign policy initiative of Roosevelt's first term was the Good Neighbor Policy, a re-evaluation of American policy towards Latin America......
