American History: In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to counteract the damage wrought by the Great Depression in the United States by introducing a set of federal programs, regulations, and subsidies known as

President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1933 to combat the Great Depression through federal programs, financial reforms, and regulations. The Great Society was introduced by LBJ in the 1960s, No Child Left Behind was a 2001 education policy under George W. Bush, and Prohibition (1920-1933) banned alcohol - none are relevant to FDR's economic recovery programs.