Great Depression/Great Drought/Dust Bowl Flashcards
1
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TVA
A
May 18 1933
The Tennessee Valley Authority
Developed work for the unemployment by building damns and hydro-electric systems
2
Q
AAA
A
May 12 1933
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Attacked the problem of over production and low prices
3
Q
FERA
A
May 1933
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Set up to provide immediate relief to needy families. Spent millions on soup kitchens
4
Q
CCC and PWA
A
1933
Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Works Administration
created environmental conservation projects and public works to provide employment
5
Q
Brains Trust
A
- had the policy that if it didn’t work then scrap it
- came up with the alphabet agencies
6
Q
Effects of GD
A
- unemployment (1929: over 1.5 million) (1933: over 12 million) (1939: over 9 million)
- industrial production halved between 1929 to 1932
- poverty
7
Q
Causes of GD
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- stock market crash on 29 October 1929 (13 million shares were sold in one day)
- everyone was investing but not financially conservative
8
Q
Link between GD and DB
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- everyone was cutting down trees to plant more crops. Nothing was keeping the dirt on the ground and created dust
- clouds of dust settled over the south of America resulting in farmers not being able to plant any more crops
- many lost jobs and could not support themselves. many moved towards the big cities adding to the unemployed and starving in the cities
9
Q
Political response: Herbert Hoover
A
- 1929-33
- laissez-faire approach (let everything sort itself out without interference)
- only furthered crisis
- hoover was seen as an ineffectual leader
10
Q
Political response: Franklin D. Roosevelt
A
- 1933-45
- instilled optimism
- created the ‘brains trust’ that created the New Deal and the Alphabet Agencies
- unemployment decreased after he put action into place
- much better president than hoover
