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The new deal ch 26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) | In return for withdrawing part of their land from cultivation, farmers received "rental payments" from this act. |
| National Industrial Recovery Act | Created structure for business and labor to cooperate to make particular industries more profitable |
| Manhattan Project | Scientists trying to develop an atomic bomb, in secret. |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | A new deal agency that built and operated dams and power plants on the TN River. |
| Axis Power | Term for alliance between Nazi Germany , Italy, and Japan. |
| National recovery administration | Gov. Agency to supervise drafting and operation of business codes. |
| Wagner Act | Gave workers the right to bargain and prohibit employees from interfering with union organizational activities in their factory. |
| Blitzkrieg | A word Hitler taught meaning lightning War supported by tanks and aircraft. |
| Neutrality Acts | Acts passed to prevent the US from being drawn into a wider war. |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | Provided jobs for men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five in reforestation and conservative projects. |
| New Deal | Programs designed to stimulate the economy. |
| The dust bowl | Ecological disaster by drought and over cultivation |
| Lend-Lease Act | Empowering the president to sell, lend, lease, or transfer 7 billion of war material to any country whose defense he declared vital |
| Social Security Act | A new deal that established a system of old age, unemployment, and survivors insurance funded by wage and payroll taxes |
| Federal Emergency Relief Act | Gave federal money to states and localities to provide relief of poor |