The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a yearning employment program made by President Roosevelt in 1935, amid the most depressing long stretches of the Great Depression.
Over its eight years of presence, the WPA set generally 8.5 million Americans to work. The WPA additionally supported tasks in the arts, the office utilized a huge number of on-screen characters, performers, scholars and different specialists.
The larger goal was uniting Americans around the war effort.
Cracking down on dissent would be a negative action in support of the larger, positive goal the government sought. The government wanted a fully united public in support of the war, and so it put out the message that that freedom of speech might have its limits in times of war.
