Well at the time of his inauguration he gave a speech that basically said that”our greatest primary task is to put people to work.this is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously”and remember at that time period the entire US had a lot of jobless people and a lot of people were broke and the president before this guy didn’t want to interfere with the economy which made FDR more popular because fdr set out to help everyone and he basically started building a lot parks and railways and giving people jobs and started the g men organizations this really helped the us in the Great Depression but we officially got completely up when we started to sell weapons and supplies to both sides of the war until Japan didn’t like that decided let’s surprise attack that little island