Great Depression
Across
- 4. Shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.
- 6. Form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power.
- 7. Provided by some large financial institutions, such as banks and insurance companies.
- 9. Served as the 32nd president of the United States.
- 14. All-pay auction in which all participants must pay a non-refundable fee to place each small incremental bid.
- 16. Provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.
- 17. American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression.
Down
- 1. Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
- 2. Reriod of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture.
- 3. American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
- 5. First Lady of the United States.
- 8. Act of borrowing money to buy securities
- 10. Law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States.
- 11. 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts.
- 12. American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."
- 13. investment in stocks, property, or other ventures.
- 15. Who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.