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Across
  1. 3. war 1 / began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  2. 5. Tuesday / a major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929. It started on October 24 and continued until October 29, 1929,
  3. 8. Delano Roosevelt / an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
  4. 11. adjustment act / a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
  5. 13. depression / the economy was weak
  6. 15. Talmadge / A American Dixiecrat politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943
  7. 16. harbor / An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
  8. 17. market crash of 1929 / onsidered the worst economic event in world history – began on Thursday, October 24, 1929, with skittish investors trading a record 12.9 million shares.
Down
  1. 1. aircraft / an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1
  2. 2. deal / a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression
  3. 4. Russell / A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933
  4. 5. weevil / eats cotton
  5. 6. lease act / An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
  6. 7. conservation corps / a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed,
  7. 9. security act / is a U.S. government agency that administers social programs
  8. 10. / low water
  9. 11. major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929. It started on October 24 and continued until October 29, 1929,
  10. 12. electrification administration / this provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States.
  11. 14. Vinson / He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy"