The Great Depression

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  1. 2. an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving First Lady of the United States.
  2. 5. a shanty town built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
  3. 13. a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.
  4. 14. 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.
  5. 15. repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol.
  6. 16. investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.
  7. 17. an 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."
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  1. 1. an American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression. Known as the "Townsend Plan'', this proposal influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's Social Security system.
  2. 3. an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
  3. 4. a American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
  4. 6. international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.
  5. 7. a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States. Sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, it was signed by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930.
  6. 8. a type of all-pay auction in which all participants must pay a non-refundable fee to place each small incremental bid.
  7. 9. (of a bank or other financial institution) pledge to buy all the unsold shares in (an issue of new securities).
  8. 10. a group of 43,000 demonstrators made up of 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, together with their families and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.
  9. 11. borrowing money from a broker in order to purchase stock.
  10. 12. a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy.