2.16-2.20 Flashcards
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Series of domestic programs, public work project, and financial reforms/regulations enacted by President FDR
New Deal
3 r’s
Reform, relief, recovery
a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community.
Public works
A law passed by Congress to stabilize the banking system after the Great Depression:
Emergency Banking act of 1933
law that separated commercial and investment banking to restore confidence in the banking system after the 1929 stock market crash
Glass Steagall Act (Banking act of 1933)
A government corp created to supply deposit insurance to depositors in america. Created during the Banking act of 1933
FDIC
Federal agency that regulates the securities industry in the US in order to avoid market manipulation. EG - requires the disclosure of important market info
SEC (Securities and exchange commission)
Act aimed to stimulate the economy during the great depression
NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act)
The act that makes it clear that it is a policy of the US to encourage labor unions by protecting workers’ full freedom of association
National Labor Relations Act
Federal program that provides retirement benefits and disability income to qualified individuals and their spouses, children and survivors.
Social Security
Act that was designed to provide immediate econ relief to farmers during the great depression
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
A gov agency developed to assist in aiding the US in the industrial production of materials for the US army. Coordinated and channeled production.
War Industries Board (WW1)
Converted the factories of peacetime industries into manufacturing plants for weapons and military equipment for the fight.
War production Board (WW2)
During ww2, the government set limits on purchasing certain high demand items.
Rationing
It was a group that helped controlled all war related news and promoted the war effort through propaganda.
Office of Public information (WW1)
federal agency established by President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9182 of June 13, 1942, to conduct the government’s wartime information and propaganda programs.
Office of War Information (WW2)
Office of Price Administration (WW2)
