INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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CCC
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TVA
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WPA
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Detailed explanation-1: -TVA was created in 1933, one of the “alphabet soup” projects championed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a way to get a flagging country back on its feet during the Great Depression.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roosevelt’s New Deal platform created an incredible number of different federal agencies to carry out new policies and regulations. Almost all of these agencies had an acronym like the CCC, TVA, or HOLC. Therefore, these collectively came to be known as FDR’s “Alphabet Soup Agencies” or just “Alphabet Agencies.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act on May 18, 1933. The TVA Act established the Tennessee Valley Authority. The TVA is one of Roosevelt’s New Deal “alphabet agencies” (others include the WPA and the CCC). The initial role of these agencies was to administer FDR’s federal New Deal programs.
Detailed explanation-4: -Security Act has changed their name but still keep their acronym.