Great Depression and New Deal Review

Flashcards covering key terms and concepts from a lecture on the Great Depression and the New Deal.

Hoover's Program

Herbert Hoover's program

RFC

Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Provided loans to banks and businesses.

CCC

Put men to work

AAA

Subsidized Agriculture

NRA

National Recovery Administration; Agency that focused on recovery during the Great Depression

TVA

Built dams; Tennessee Valley Authority

PWA

Provided work; Public Works Administration

WPA

Provided work; Works Progress Administration

FDIC

Insured banks; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FBI

Law enforcement agency

Amelia Earhart

Aviator who disappeared

Herbert Hoover

President during the start of the Great Depression

Jesse Owens

African American track and field star won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Douglas MacArthur

Led U.S. troops; Commander of Allied forces in the Pacific during World War II

Huey Long

Louisiana Governor and Senator who criticized FDR's New Deal

Alfred Landon

Ran against FDR in 1936

Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

Son was kidnapped; American aviator

Charles Coughlin

Catholic priest who criticized FDR's New Deal

Social Security Act

Provided benefits to retirees and unemployed

Fireside Chats

FDR's radio addresses, speaking directly to the American people

Deficit Spending

Spending more money than you bring in

Work Relief

Providing jobs and assistance to the unemployed

New Deal

FDR's plan to alleviate the Great Depression

Court Packing Plan

FDR's plan to add justices to the Supreme Court

Dust Bowl

A period of severe dust storms in the Great Plains during the 1930s

Brain Trust

FDR's advisors during the Great Depression

Bank Runs

People withdrawing money from their banks

Public Works

Government-funded projects to create jobs

Francis Townsend

Proposed the Townsend Plan for old-age pensions

Bread Lines

Places where people waited in line for free food

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

High tariffs that worsened the Great Depression

NIRA

National Industrial Recovery Act; Declared unconstitutional

Hundred Days

The first 100 days of FDR's presidency

Hoovervilles

Shantytowns during the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President elected during the Great Depression