Chapter 26 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What was a broad program of legislation which promoted recovery from the Great Depression? | New Deal. |
This was a New Deal program meant to provide government jobs in reforestation, flood control, and other conservation projects to young men under between the ages 18 and 25, what program was this? | Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). |
An agency that promoted economic recovery, that promulgated industry-wide codes to control production, prices, and wages, which New Deal agency was this? | National Recovery Administration (NRA). |
This raised farm prices by restricting output of stable crops. Restricting the production and paid subsidies to grower, what New Deal Legislation was it? | Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). |
This agency built and operated dams and power plants on the Tennessee River, also promoted flood control, soil conservation, and reforestation, what agency was this? | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). |
Which New Deal agency spent $11 billion on federal works projects and provided employment for 8.5 million persons? | Works Progress Administration (WPA). |
What was the act called which allowed workers the right to organize and bargain collectively? | Wagner Act. |
Which system, being a part of the Ne Deal, are old-age, unemployment, and survivors' insurance being funded by wage and payroll taxes? | Social Security Act. |
What is the legislation affirming non-belligerency in the event of war, called? | Neutrality Acts. |
Which German tactic used in World War II involved the coordinated attack of air and armored fire-power? | Blitzkrieg. |
What code name for the United States military project was used when they built an atomic bomb as well as produced fissionable uranium and plutonium? | Manhattan Project. |
What term is used for the alliance between Nazi Germany and Italy after 1936 and, after 1940, Japan? | Axis Powers. |
What military aid measure that allowed the president to sell, lend-lease, or transfer $7 billion of war material to any country whose defense they declared as vital to that of the United States? | Lend-Lease Act. |
Which president proposed the New Deal to overcome the great depression and relieve those in distress? | President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). |
What is the Wagner Act considered and also called? | Considered the official National Labor Relations Act, at times called Labor's Magna Carta. |
Who ran the WPA, Works Progress Administration? | Harry Hopkins. |
What event costed $2 Billion as well as the effort reached the highest climax pointed in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945? | The Manhattan Project. |
What does Blitzkrieg translate to? | "Lightening War." |
What was the first word for welfare? | Direct Relief. |
Who is Lena Horne? | The first African American women to receive a movie contract or tow with an all white band. |
Who was Ida B. Well? | One of the founders of the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, along with an anti-lynching activists and a journalist. |
Wall Street Crash, the Great Crash, or even known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 on October the 24th. What else was it known as? | Black Tuesday. |
In the minds of the American people, who is the main person or President to blame for the incident of the Stock Market crashing and the Great Depression? | President Herbert Hoover. |
Who was a black pride leader and also promoted for Africans to return to their ancestral homeland? | Marcus Garvey. |
These were 30 evening radio addresses spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) between 1933-1944, what is the term that describes this? | Fireside Chat. |
True or False, Was Eleanor Roosevelt an advocate for liberal causes? | True. |
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