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Dust Bowl
A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s. -
National Recovery Administration
Federal government's plan to revive industry during the Great Depression through production codes for wages and prices designed to limit competition. -
Social Security
A 1935 law passed during the Great Depression that was intended to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans and thus save them from poverty. -
Neutrality Act
European democracies might buy American war materials on a "cash-and-carry basis"; improved American moral and economic position
Kristallnacht-(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. -
Pearl Harbor
1941 United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Was attacked on December 7, 1941. -
ABC-1 Agreement
Agreement between Britain and the United States developed at a conference in Washington, DC, that should the United States enter World War II, the two nations and their allies would coordinate their military planning, making a priority of protecting the British Commonwealth. "Get Germany"
