Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was in office came into the presidency in 1933, when the United States (and much of the world) was mired in the Great Depression. The "unprecedented task" was to find a way out of that horrible time of economic collapse. The task he proposed, requiring "undelayed action," was the implementation of his New Deal programs to spur economic recovery. I won't go into what all the elements of the New Deal were -- you can look that up quite easily on your own!
<span>Ceausescu's Downfall was caused by
economic/financial reasons. He had borrowed heavily from the West to the extent
that he drove the nation into bankruptcy by 1989. As a result, he was compelled
to sell many Romanian raw materials and set strict regulations on his citizens.
This went to the extent that he even tried to force pregnancies in order to
increase the population.</span>
