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1930's
Chapter 26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the programs to help the country recover from the economic problems of the Great Depression. | New Deal |
| A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. | CCC |
| Was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. | NRA |
| A United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. | AAA |
| forced many farmers to migrate west to California and inspired Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath. The dust was very hazardous to the health and to living, creating further misery. | The Dust Bowl |
| A federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation. | TVA |
| guaranteed the right of unions to organize and to collectively bargain with management. | Wagner Act |
| guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health | Social Security Act |
| FDR was elected in this year. | Election of 1936 |
| laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. | Neutrality Acts |
| Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.'" | Lend Lease Act |
| group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in World War II, including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. | Axis Powers |
| The code name for the effort to develop atomic bombs for the United States during World War II. | Manhattan Project |
| Was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. | WPA |
| Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. | Black Tuesday |
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