-
National War Labor Board
The National War Labor Board was a body formed to resolve disputes in labor during wartime production, specifically during WWI and WWII. -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. -
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act
RTAA gave the president the power to negotiate bilateral, reciprocal trade agreements with other countries. This law enabled Roosevelt to liberalize American trade policy around the globe. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. -
Bracero program
A series of laws and diplomatic agreements, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.