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was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
Berlin Blockade
were the 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
Bonus Army
was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
Civillian Conservation Corps
was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Court-Packing Plan
was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.
Emergency Banking Bill
is a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in U.S. commercial banks and savings institutions
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
Fourteen Points
was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
Frances Perkins
was an American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression.
Francis Townsend
U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans
G.I. Bill of Rights
effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among other things.
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
was an Act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and was signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
Howley-Smoot Tariff
was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935.
Huey Long
was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
Langston Hughes
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
Lend-Lease Bill
bad or faulty distribution : undesirable inequality or unevenness of placement or apportionment (as of population, resources, or wealth) over an area or among members of a group.
Maldistribution Act
was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2018 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
Marshall Plan
is a United States federal law. Congress enacted it over President Harry Truman’s veto.
McCarran International Security Act
was an agency of the United States government created in early 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson which was made up of twelve members from business and labor.
National War Labor Board
based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies
Neutrality Act of 1937
was a British Conservative Party statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.
Neville Chamberlain
were Italian-born American anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
Sacco and Vanzetti
nine African American teenagers, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused in Alabama of raping two white women on a train in 1931.
Scottsboro Nine Act
reserved the rights of labor unions to organize and bargain collectively, but also outlawed closed shops, giving workers the right to decline to join a union.
Taft-Hartley Act
a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation
Tennessee Valley Authority
was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end
Treaty of Versailles
was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Truman Doctrine
was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the U.S. Congress’s power to lay taxes is not limited only to the level necessary to carry out
U.S. v. Butler
was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was established on May 6, 1935,
Works Progress Administration
