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This was called to limit naval arms race and discuss security agreements of the Pacific.
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These treaties helped the powerful nations regulate and draw lines on the events in the pacific area.
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Sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks. Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families.
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Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion.
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Federal government build series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity. First public competition with private power industries
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Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers.
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Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
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Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works projects.
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Created federally insured bank deposits to prevent bank failures.
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This was a predecessor to the SCS.
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Provided public works jobs at $15/week to four million workers in 1934.
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Regulated stock market and restricted margin buying.
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The Soil Conservation Service was a program created to help slow down the erosion process.
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Encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms. Despite its efforts, by 1940 only 40% of American farms were electrified.
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Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and high school students.
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Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management.
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Response to critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children.
