FDR’s New Deal increased the role of government in people’s lives to unprecedented levels, levels that continued long after America had recovered from the Great Depression. "Effects Of The Great Depression The Great Depression Facts." The Great Depression. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2016. <http://thegreatdepressioncauses.com/effects/>. Economic and political changes happened after the stock market crash of 1929 and the collapse of more than 40% of American banks by 1933, strict trading and banking regulations were put in place, as well as financial protections, enforced by the newly formed Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). "Effects Of The Great Depression | The Great Depression Facts." The Great Depression. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2016. <http://thegreatdepressioncauses.com/effects/>. The federal government in 1935 guaranteed unions the right to organize and bargain collectively, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established a mechanism for putting a floor under wages and a ceiling on hours that continues to this day. "Miller Center." Franklin D. Roosevelt: Impact and Legacy-. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2016. <http://millercenter.org/president/biography/fdroosevelt-impact-and-legacy>. With Roosevelt’s social decision to support Britain and France in the struggle against Germany and the other Axis Powers, defense manufacturing geared up, producing more and more private sector jobs. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 led to an American declaration of war, and the nation’s factories went back in full production mode.This expanding industrial production, as well as widespread conscription beginning in 1942, reduced the unemployment rate to below its pre-Depression level. History.com Staff. "The Great Depression." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 10 Nov. 2016. <http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression>. Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement. "Franklin D. Roosevelt." The White House. The White House, 29 Dec. 2014. Web. 14 Nov. 2016. <https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/franklindroosevelt>. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built dams and hydroelectric projects to control flooding and provide electric power to the impoverished Tennessee Valley region of the South, and the Works Project Administration (WPA), provided permanent jobs program that employed 8.5 million people from 1935 to 1943. After showing early signs of recovery beginning in the spring of 1933, the economy continued to improve throughout the next three years, during which real GDP (adjusted for inflation) grew at an average rate of 9 percent per year. provided permanent jobs program that employed 8.5 million people from 1935 to 1943, and the economy continued to improve throughout the next three years. History.com Staff. "The Great Depression." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 10 Nov. 2016. <http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression>. FDR reshaped the American presidency through his "fireside chats," delivered to an audience via the new technology of radio, FDR built a bond between himself and the public—doing much to shape the image of the President as the caretaker of the American people. Restoring their confidence. "FDR Gives First Fireside Chat." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2016. <http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-gives-first-fireside-chat>.