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11 Cards in this Set
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Agricultural Adjustment Act |
A federal law passed in 1933, ruled unconstitutional, and then modified and passed in 1938. it set quotas on farm produce in an attempt to keep farmers in business during the Great Depression. |
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Bell Aircraft |
A corporation that manufactured aircraft and was active during World War II. |
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Boll Weevil |
A beetle that feeds on flowers and cotton buds. Not native to the United States, it provided disastrous to cotton producers in American Southwest, including those in Georgia, during the Great Depression. |
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Civilian Conservation Corps |
A Great Depression-era work relief program that put young American men to work in rural areas. |
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Drought |
A period of little or no rainfall. A widespread drought in the United States during the 1930s created a dust bowl in parts of the Midwest and West. |
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The Great Depression |
A sustained period of American economic decline. It lasted from 1929 until mid-1940s. U.S. entry into World War II led to the end of the Great Depression. |
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Holocaust |
The mass murder of Jews and other groups by Nazis during World War II. |
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Lend-Lease |
The Lend-Lease Act in 1941 let the United States aid the Allies in World War II. It was signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and allowed the United States to provide aid to Great Britain. |
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New Deal |
A series of laws enacted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression, aimed at rebuilding the American economy. |
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Pearl Harbor |
A naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, prompting the United States' entry into World War II |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He governed the nation during both the Great Depression and World War II. He first visited Brunswick, Georgia, in 1913 on business for the U.S. Navy. After contracting polio in 1921, he returned to the state, this time to visit Warm Springs, where he hoped the waters would restore him to health. He later purchased a home there and visited it often |
