The New Deal was launched in 1933 , early in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, and continued through the second half of the 1930s, roughly 1933–1939.

In simple terms:

  • Core New Deal programs and laws began in 1933, during FDR’s “First 100 Days.”
  • Historians usually date the overall New Deal era to about 1933–1938 or 1933–1939.