THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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There were many agencies and they were each given abbreviations.
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Everyone knows the alphabet and it made it easier to read.
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The agencies were given codes with letters and numbers.
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Alphabet soup was Roosevelt’s favorite thing to have during lunch.
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Detailed explanation-1: -His administration created the New Deal program, in which a large number of agencies-known colloquially as “alphabet soup” because of their three-or four-lettered acronyms-attempted to alleviate the disasters that faced American citizens.
Detailed explanation-2: -The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office in 1933.
Detailed explanation-3: -1: CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Its function was the conservation of resources, which it achieved by hiring more than 2.5 million young men to work on environmental projects such as planting trees, building roads and parks, and fighting soil erosion on federal lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression.