Final Exam Terms #10: The Great Depression and World War II

For Prof. Garmon's AMST 100 final. Important terms from the Great Depression and WWII.

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929. Stock Market crash that marks the beginning of the Great Depression.

FDR’s Fireside Chats

FDR’s way of connecting directly with the American people and avoid republican reporters.

The New Deal

FDR policy that created employment, infrastructure, and social security.

Works Progress Administration (1935)

Largest program of the New Deal, employed approximately 20 million Americans in construction to build infrastructure.

Social Security Act

Frances Perkins proposed it, and it was adopted in 1937. Designed to help older Americans who couldn’t find work.

FDR’s Four Freedoms

Want, Speech, Worship, and Fear.

Panay Incident (1937)

Japan bombed an American ship they knew was peaceful.

Cash and Carry (1939)

If you come to the United States with your own ship and crew (no Americans on board), you can buy what you want with cash and bring it back.

Destroyers for Bases (1940)

British and Canadians agree to give the U.S. some of their military bases in the western hemisphere and we agree to give them some of our old destroyers.

Lend Lease (1941)

U.S. would lend supplies to the Allies now and then and everyone would pay it back later, but they could pay it back in commodities based on a fixed system of exchange rates.