New Deal Programs
This 1933 law created the FDIC to insure bank deposits and restore confidence in banks.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
This group of wealthy conservatives created the American Liberty League to oppose the New Deal.
Who are conservative business leaders?
Workers in this 1937 strike stayed inside factories and refused to leave.
What is the General Motors sit-down strike?
This 1924 plan had the United States lend money to Germany to help pay war reparations.
What is the Dawes Plan?
By 1929 this European country had a fascist government led by Benito Mussolini.
What is Italy?
This New Deal program paid farmers not to plant crops in order to raise agricultural prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This Louisiana politician proposed the “Share Our Wealth” program and criticized Roosevelt for not doing enough.
Who is Huey Long?
During the GM strike, the federal government took this approach to the dispute.
What is refusing to intervene?
These laws attempted to keep the United States out of foreign wars during the 1930s.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This 1938 agreement allowed Hitler to take territory from Czechoslovakia in hopes of avoiding war.
What is the Munich Agreement?
This agency attempted to regulate industry by creating codes for wages, prices, and working conditions.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
This doctor proposed a pension plan for elderly Americans that influenced Social Security.
Who is Francis Townsend?
This 1936 election victory created a powerful coalition that supported the Democratic Party for decades.
What is the Election of 1936?
This provision of the Neutrality Act banned the sale of weapons to nations at war.
What is an arms embargo?
The policy of giving in to aggressive nations to avoid conflict was called this.
What is appeasement?
This New Deal program built dams, controlled flooding, and provided electricity in the South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Criticism of the New Deal came from these two political sides.
What are the political right and the political left?
This group advised Roosevelt and represented African American interests in the administration.
What is the Black Cabinet?
This 1922 agreement limited the naval armaments of major world powers.
What is the Five-Power Pact?
This U.S. policy allowed the United States to provide weapons to Allied nations like Britain.
What is Lend-Lease?
Two days after becoming president, Roosevelt temporarily closed all banks in this emergency action.
What is the Bank Holiday?
This New Deal legacy meant the federal government became responsible for helping ensure citizens’ basic welfare.
What is expanded federal responsibility for social welfare?
Under the New Deal, African Americans generally received this compared to previous administrations.
What is more sympathy from the federal government?
This 1928 international agreement attempted to outlaw war entirely.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This act allowed the United States to loan or lease war supplies to countries fighting Axis powers.
What is the Lend-Lease Act of 1941?