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History 109
Chapter 26
Question | Answer |
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What act allowed farmers to receive rental payments for withdrawing part of their land from cultivation? | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
Blitzkreig uses what time of military machinery to fight with? | Tank and Aircraft |
What powers fused conflicts in Europe and Asia, turning their struggle into a global war? | Axis Powers |
When congress appropriated $500 million dollars for the relief the needy what corps was created? | Civilian Conservation Corps |
What were the two main problems that caused the Civilian Conservation Corps? | Unemployment and Industrial Stagnation |
What was the top secret atomic bomb program called? | Manhattan Project |
What administration supervises the drafting and operation of business codes? | National Recovery Administration |
What act forbade the sale of munitions to all belligerents whenever the president should proclaim that a state of war existed? | Neutrality Act of 1935 |
What programs are designed to stimulate the economy? | New Deal Programs |
What act set up a system of old age insurance? | Social Security |
What was the social security act financed by? | Taxes on wages and payrolls |
What did Roosevelt propose that implemented a broad experiment in social planning? | Tennessee Valley Authority |
What gave workers the right to bargain collectively and prohibited employers from interfering with union activities in their factories? | Wagner Act |
What day did Roosevelt declare a a nationwide bank holiday? | March 5 |
What was the purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation? (FDIC) | Guarantee bank deposits |
What was the Home Owners Loan Corporation established to do? | Refinance mortgages and prevent foreclosures |
What act hurt the sharecropping business? | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
What natural disaster happened and caused the western united states to "blow away"? | Dust Bowl |
What act built damns and helped deliver electricity to the Appalachian region? | Tennessee Valley Authority |
What administration help around 8.5 million people find employment? | Works Progress Administration |