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Who is FDR?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What percentage of people were unemployed in the 1930s?
20%
What was the Dust Bowl?
Huge dust storms created by droughts and soil erosion.
What was the EBA?
Emergency Banking Act.
Which organisation was designed to help unemployed artists and musicians?
WPA.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
The president of the USA at the start of the Great Depression.
What was the Wagner Act?
This act gave trade unions more power and as a result, gave workers the opportunity to strike against unfair working conditions.
Name one critique of the NRA.
It was anti-capitalist in nature.
How did the USA become involved in WWII?
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
What was the WPA?
Works Progress Administration.
What are the THREE Rs of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
What were FDR's Fireside Chats?
A series of radiobroadcasts aimed at ordinary citizens. He would explain what measures the government was taking and provided hope and optimism for the future of America
What was the CCC?
Civilian Conservation Corp.
Explain the what HOLC was.
Home-Owners Loan Corporation - designed to give people loans to keep their homes.
How did WWII help end the Great Depression?
It provided millions of jobs.
What was the New Deal?
A series of Laws and Programmes designed to combat the Great Depression.
How did the SSA help reform the economy?
A piece of legislation designed to create a system of old-age pensions, health benefits, unemployment insurance, child welfare and poor relief. Therefore, even if workers would be retrenched, they had a “safety net” to fall back on.
What did the PWA do?
It provided government funding to build schools, hospitals, bridges, and other public buildings.
What was the PWA?
Public Works Administration
What was the TVA?
Tennessee Valley Authority
When di FDR become the president of the USA?
1932.
What was the function of the CCC?
It gave work to over three million men while teaching them important skills, like soil erosion control, flood control etc.
How did the EBA help stop the Great Depression?
It stopped banks from investing in risky investments like the stock market, people were more inclined to trust the banks.
Explain how the AAA helped farmers.
This agency paid farmers to reduce production and destroy crops and livestock. This was meant to reduce surpluses and stabilise the price of goods. This provided relief to farmers as they were earning more money for their crops and livestock
What was the NRA?
(National Recovery Administration) forced factories to stabilise the prices of goods, insuring that more people could buy goods, and in turn, help move money around the economy.