The '''Emergency Banking Act''', officially titled the '''Emergency Banking Relief Act''', also sometimes known as the '''War Powers Act of 1933''',<ref name=CRSReport>[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc817258/m1/1/ Presidential Emergency Powers: The So-Called "War Powers Act of 1933"]</ref> was a legislative response to the [[Great Depression]] and was signed by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] on March 9th, 1933. The act amended the [[World War I]] era law, the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917.<ref name=CRSReport /> | The '''Emergency Banking Act''', officially titled the '''Emergency Banking Relief Act''', also sometimes known as the '''War Powers Act of 1933''',<ref name=CRSReport>[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc817258/m1/1/ Presidential Emergency Powers: The So-Called "War Powers Act of 1933"]</ref> was a legislative response to the [[Great Depression]] and was signed by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] on March 9th, 1933. The act amended the [[World War I]] era law, the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917.<ref name=CRSReport /> |