Tag: between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression

Government-sponsored lotteries give people a chance to get rich.

Lowering the top income tax rates will spur economic growth.

Government programs that hire the unemployed lower the poverty rates.

Lowering the bottom income tax rates encour ages spending.

Low-interest government loans spur economic growth.

use nonviolent civil disobedience to oppose racial segregation

send aid to antifascist groups in Europe

force all "subversive" groups to register with the government

ban women from working outside the home until all able-bodied men had work.

provide a monthly stipend to everyone in the United States over 60 years old

Depression

Recession

Period of prosperity

Recovery

Bank crisis

declare a bank holiday

establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

establish Social Security

establish the National Recovery Administration

pack the Supreme Court

President Theodore Roosevelt's policy in regard to Latin America.

President John F. Kennedy's policy in regard to Vietnam.

President Andrew Jackson's policy in regard to Native American nations.

President George H. W. Bush's policy in regard to Saudi Arabia.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy in regard to the Soviet Union.

Civil Works Administration

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

National Labor Relations Act

Farm Security Administration

Federal Housing Administration

the justices were too inexperienced to deal with the Great Depression.

the court had declared some New Deal legislation unconstitutional.

Roosevelt felt that Congress had become more powerful than the president.

the court refused to allow the president to implement the Lend-Lease Act.

the court had demonstrated liberal tendencies in interpreting the New Deal legislation.

doing nothing.

encouraging unions to organize.

establishing extensive federal relief programs to meet the emergency.

building Hoovervilles to shelter the homeless in all the large cities.

providing loans to industry to restart production.

elaborate musicals, such as Gold Diggers of 1933, with lavish dance numbers and opulent sets, which suggested that better times were just around the corner.

earnest films, such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, which suggested that the problems of the era could be solved by old-fashioned values rather than sweeping political or economic change.

bright, animated films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which offered Americans an escape from the drudgery of daily life.

zany comedies, such as Duck Soup, which created an anarchic world that mocked authority at a time when traditional authorities seemed to be unable to provide answers to the day's problems.

gritty gangster movies, such as The Public Enemy, which presented a lonely, often cruel world of urban decay and violence.

William McKinley

William Howard Taft

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

Calvin Coolidge