New Deal
FDR pass this act which did not allow banks to re-open until they proved their soundness to the Treasury Dept.
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
The FDIC protected all banking customers from loss of deposits in a FDIC protected bank.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
This leader was the first truly fascist leader who believed the government should take over almost every aspect of business, daily life and all opposition would be repressed.
This Act forbade putting pressure on government works to contribute to a political party or to vote in a certain way which helps keep the federal workforce free from coercion or political influence.
What is the Hatch Act?
Hitler used this German worded "excuse" for why it was necessary to invade other countries to help unify the German people.
What is Lebensraum?
The 3 R's included these three points in the New Deal.
What is Relief, Recovery and Reform?
The AAA helped set limits on agricultural production.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
This Spanish fascist leader was asked to join the Axis after receiving help from Germany and Italy during its civil war, but managed to stay out of WWII.
Who is General Francisco Franco?
After this drought-inflicted event, particularly in Kansas and Oklahoma, many moved to California.
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is Dunkirk?
FDR announced this major change which resulted in the hoarding of gold as a crime.
What is removal of the gold standard?
CCC set up 2000 work camps for young men to help develop state forests and construct dams, etc.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This British Prime Minister before Winston Churchill, met with Hitler in Munich, Germany in Sept. 1938 which allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland if he agreed to end his aggression in other parts of Europe.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
Hitler implemented the German air force to launch attacks that was known by this name.
What is the Luftwaffe?
America entered the war after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor - (as wells as Wake Island, Midway Island, Guam and the Philippines and Hong Kong) on this day in history.
What is December 7, 1941?
This program added a range of benefits including unemployment insurance, disability insurance and retirement benefits.
What is Social Security?
TVA helped develop an entire region with electricity.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Hitler invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939 using these "fast war" tactics.
What is blitzkrieg?
Germany overtook France in this year, setting up a puppet government in Vichy, France.
What is 1940?
Russia and Japan signed this treaty in April of 1941 so that Russia could concentrate on the German front.
What is a non-aggression treaty?
This percentage of Americans were unemployed at the beginning at the worst of the Depression.
What is 25% of the population?
The WPA helped state and local governments to build and repair 6000 schools, 5000 sewage plans and 128,000 miles of road.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This nationalist Chinese leader during WWII was trying to keep out communism during this period, but ultimately lost by being overcome by Communist leader Mao Zedong.
In March 1941, FDR signed this act in hopes to stay out of WWII by aiding the Allies with food, ammunition, planes and tanks.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
What are oil storage tanks and the aircraft carriers?