The New Deal was the program implemented by President Franklin D. Rooselvet to address the agonizing economic situation generated by the financial Crash in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression during the 1930s decade.
The New Deal was based on Keynesian economics and identified, as the major cause of the Great Depression, the extremely low aggregate demand figures. The solution proposed was to boost demand by directing large sums of public money to enhance employment levels by the creation of new job positions (for example, through the program of public works), so that those newly re-employed individuals could start to earn a salary and to demand products and services again.
It was the United States that put millions of dollars into the economy through the governmental programs of the New Deal, since this was FDR's tactic when it came to wrestling the US out of the Great Depression.
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