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- 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
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- 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