Term | Definition |
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) | New Deal legislation that raised farm prices by restricting output of staple crops. It restricted production and paid subsidies to growers; declared unconstitutional in 1963. |
Axis Powers | A term for the alliance between Nazi Germany and Italy after 1936, and after 1940, Japan. |
Blitzkrieg | A German tactic in World War II, translated as "lightning war," involving the coordinated attack of air and armored fire-power. |
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | A New Deal program to provide government jobs in reforestation, flood control, an other conservation projects to young men between ages eighteen and twenty-five. |
Lend-Lease Act | A military aid measure, proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, empowers president to sell, lend, lease or transfers $7 billion of war material to any country whose defense is vital to that of the United States. |
Manhattan Project | The code name for the extensive United States military project, established in 1942, produced fissionable uranium and plutonium. |
National Recovery Administration (NRA) | A New Deal agency, established in 1933, to promote economic recovery, that promulgated industry-wide codes to control production, prices, and wages. |
Neutrality Acts | Legislation affirming nonbelligerency in the event of the war. Legislation passed in 1794 to preclude American entanglement in the Napoleonic War. |
New Deal | A broad program of legislation proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to promote recovery from the Great Depression and provide relief for those in distress. |
Social Security Act | A component of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, it established in 1935 a system of old-age, unemployment, and survivors' insurance funded by wage and payroll taxes. |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | A New Deal agency that built and operated dams and power plants on the Tennessee River; it also promoted flood control, soil conservation, and reforestation. |
Wagner Act | Officially the National Labor Relations Act and sometimes called Labor's Magna Carta, it gave workers the right to organize and bargain. |
Works Progress Administration (WPA) | A New Deal agency, established in 1935 and run by Harry Hopkins, that spent $11 billion on federal works projects and provided employment for 8.5 million persons. |
Dust Bowl | an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice. |
Great Depression | October 29, 1929- 1939. A long and severe recession in an economy or market. |