Unit 4 Vocab

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  1. 4. This Act provided for unemployment insurance, old age insurance, and means tested welfare programs
  2. 5. the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
  3. 11. a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States
  4. 16. given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality
  5. 17. suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
  6. 19. a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. To stimulate the economy, the Share Our Wealth program called for massive federal spending, a wealth tax, and wealth redistribution
  7. 22. went to those in immediate and desperate need; however, work relief.
  8. 24. describe changes to the size of the Supreme Court
  9. 31. President Franklin Roosevelt declared a "banking holiday," ordering all banks in the United States closed until government audits declared them solvent. During the Great Depression, banks throughout the United States faced a financial crisis
  10. 32. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service
  11. 34. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created the SEC, the legislation was designed to help investors feel more comfortable about putting their money back into the stock market
  12. 35. policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
  13. 36. Americans bought the bonds to help the Government pay for the war
  14. 39. the buyer pays as little as 10% of the purchase price of the stock and borrows the rest from a broker
  15. 40. One of the 3 R´s in the new deal
  16. 46. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor.
  17. 47. making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations
  18. 48. Speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. ... Roosevelt realized the impact that those witting in favor of isolationism had on the nation
  19. 49. a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944. ... On radio, he was able to quell rumors, counter conservative-dominated newspapers, and explain his policies directly to the American people
  20. 50. American physician who was best known for his revolving old age pension proposal during the Great Depression
  21. 51. Cash and Carry was a policy by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced at a joint session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939, subsequent to the outbreak of war in Europe
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  1. 1. to buy stock with the assumption that it can always be sold at a profit
  2. 2. a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
  3. 3. Japan wanted to expand in order to gain more natural resources and to create its own economic empire in the Pacific
  4. 6. an independent agency of the federal government of the United States with responsibilities for enforcing U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices
  5. 7. a form of far right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th century Europe
  6. 8. code name for the American led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II
  7. 9. government assistance in maintaining the levels of market prices regardless of supply or demand
  8. 10. Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953
  9. 12. effort to help the one third of the population that was hardest hit by the depression. Relief was also aimed at providing temporary help to suffering and unemployed Americans
  10. 13. It was established after the collapse of many American banks during the initial years of the Great Depression
  11. 14. people started to be able to buy things with payments over time and not have to pay a flat out fee
  12. 15. of Democracy the collective efforts of American industry in supporting the Allies, which efforts tended to be concentrated in the established industrial centers of the U.S., such as Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and other places.
  13. 18. a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
  14. 20. Roosevelt only increased the deficit by $3 billion a year to fight the Great Depression
  15. 21. the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked
  16. 23. was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government
  17. 25. part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes
  18. 26. provided for unemployment insurance, old age insurance, and means tested welfare programs
  19. 27. was established to work with the ... Censors on the job over a year became susceptible to depression
  20. 28. A non-aggression pact or neutrality pact is a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.
  21. 29. an American labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician
  22. 30. recovery began in early 1933, but the U.S. did not return to 1929 GNP for over a decade and still had an unemployment rate of about 15% in 1940, albeit down from the high of 25% in 1933.
  23. 33. an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States
  24. 37. an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party
  25. 38. an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States
  26. 41. He asked individuals to tighten their belts and work harder, and he asked the business community to voluntarily help sustain the economy by retaining workers and continuing production.
  27. 42. October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed and the start of the great depression
  28. 43. a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
  29. 44. Tennessee Valley Authority, was established in 1933 as one of President Roosevelt's Depression era New Deal programs
  30. 45. a Canadian American Roman Catholic priest who was based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little FlowerHuey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. To stimulate the economy, the Share Our Wealth program called for massive federal spending, a wealth tax, and wealth redistribution