U.S.History-Depression-05-ID

Concerns about mass unemployment and a potential return to the economic depression of the 1930s were widespread due to the millions of soldiers returning from World War II. The GI Bill, officially known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, aimed to mitigate this by ____________________.

• giving each veteran a low-interest loan that could be used for education or housing
• opening bank accounts for each veteran; staking them to $2000 and a line of credit
• creating thousands of government jobs for veterans; a program called The New Deal
• providing education and training, which kept veterans from flooding the job market