The New Deal Vocabulary

2. Georgia Congressman who was an advocate for a strong US military--"father of two-ocean navy"
4. (SSA), created a system for retirement and unemployment insurance, aided families with dependent children and the disabled.
5. began in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
7. a powerful Georgia politician, who opposed many of the New Deal programs.
10. (REA), offered low-interest loans to companies to build power lines in isolated rural areas.
12. began in the early 1930s and worsened the poor economic conditions, because of low rainfall there was a shortage of water
14. American Naval base in Hawaii; a surprise attack on the base by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941 resulted in the US entering World War II
16. was a series of laws, programs, and government agencies enacted to help the country deal with the Great Depression.
17. has close ties to Georgia and died at his Georgia home," The Little White House," in Warms Springs.
18. Factory located in Marietta, Georgia, that produced B - 29 bombers for the US war effort

1. the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
3. was a four-day collapse of stock prices that began on October 24, 1929
6. (CCC), provided jobs for young unmarried on national conservation projects.
8. the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
9. (AAA), was passed in 1933, and actually paid farmers a subsidy NOT to produce certain crops in order to raise farm prices.
11. Georgia governor and influential long term US senator; father of school lunch program and brought CDC and military bases to state
13. greatly affected Georgia's long history of cotton production between 1915, when the insect was introduced to Georgia, and the early 1990s
15. refers to October 29, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange