When Franklin D. Roosevelt became the president of the United States in 1933, the nation's economy was in a state of turmoil. Industrial production slowed to about half its level prior to the depression, agricultural and other prices of goods fell to half of their previous value, and unemployment ju...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was with no doubt President at the worst time in American history. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President through not one but two American crisis the Great Depression and World War II. His dealings with both of them were incredible. The nations' people bestowed their trust...