| A | B |
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| Polio | What disease crippled FDR? |
| gold | The American dollar was backed by what commodity until FDR changed it in 1933? |
| prohibition | The 21st Amendment ended what? |
| labor unions | Whose rights did the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) guarantee? |
| electricity | What did the Rural Electrification Act provide to rural homes? |
| US Supreme Court | The biggest scandal of FDR's presidency was his attempt to pack this body with his supporters. |
| Isolationism | The belief popular in the 1930s that if the US stayed out of world affairs, the US could avoid being pulled into another war. |
| Daytona | This NASCAR race started as bootleggers racing their souped-up cars. |
| Scottsboro Nine | A group of African-American teens were accused of raping two white girls. |
| Hindenburg | This German zeppelin crashed in New Jersey. |
| We Do Our Part | Motto of the National Recovery Administration |
| New Deal | FDR's political program |
| Share Our Wealth | Huey Long's political program |
| Roosevelt Coalition | People who identified with the Democratic party after FDR |
| freedom of the press | What was the Near v. Minnesota case about? |
| minimum wage | What was the West Coast Hotel v. Parrish case about? |
| Okies | Nickname for people fleeing Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl |
| Frances Perkins | first female cabinet secretary, Secretary of Labor |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's first lady |
| Marian Anderson | African-American singer who was not allowed to sing at Constitution Hall |
| Amelia Earhart | female pilot who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean |
| Wonder Woman | female superhero who flew an invisible jet and had a magic lasso |
| Dorothea Lange | female photographer who took famous photos of Dust Bowl victims |
| Bruno Richard Hauptmann | he was convicted of kidnapping and murdering the Lindbergh baby |
| Giuseppe Zangara | attempted to assassinate FDR |
| Joe Louis | African-American boxer who defeated the German Max Schmelling |
| Jesse Owens | African-American track star who won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics |
| Little Orphan Annie | first radio program aimed at children |
| The Guiding Light | the first radio soap opera |
| War of the Worlds | radio prank which broadcast a report of aliens landing in New Jersey |
| red and blue | two different NBC radio networks |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarves | first full-length animated movie, Disney |
| The Wizard of Oz | one of the first color movies, starred Judy Garland |
| The Marx Brothers | Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo, and Zeppo |
| Gone with the Wind | classic 1939 movie about the Civil War in Atlanta |
| Casablanca | a pro-WWII movie starring Humphrey Bogart |
| Bugs Bunny | a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies cartoon |
| Betty Boop | a flapper cartoon character |
| Popeye | a cartoon sailor who ate spinach to get strong |
| Tom and Jerry | an MGM cartoon that William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created |
| Dick Tracy | a comic strip detective that used futuristic devices |
| Lil' Abner | a comic strip about hillbillies that lived in a town called Dogpatch |
| Superman | a superhero from the planet Krypton |
| Batman | a superhero without super powers, fought crime in Gotham City |
| Captain America | an anti-Nazi superhero |
| Benny Goodman | the King of Swing, a big band leader |
| Glenn Miller | the big band leader who disappeared during WWII |
| Robert Johnson | bluesman who supposedly made a deal with the Devil |
| Jimmie Rodgers | the father of country music |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) | tried to raise prices of farm goods by creating scarcity |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | a make work program, paid young men to work in parks |
| Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) | tried to lower people's mortgage payments and stop home foreclosures |
| National Recovery Administration (NRA) | tried to raise prices for industrial goods by creating monopolies |
| Public Works Administration (PWA) | a make work program that mostly did construction |
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | agency that dammed rivers in the south to create electricity |
| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) | agency that was supposed to oversee the stock market |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | agency that guarantees your savings account won't be lost if a bank closes |
| Federal Housing Administration (FHA) | agency that oversees how much interest banks can charge on mortgages |
| National Youth Administration (NYA) | make work program, part time jobs for students |
| Works Progress Administration (WPA) | make work program for artists |
| John Dillinger | Indiana born bank robber, killed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago |
| Bonnie and Clyde | bank robbers ambushed and shot in their car |
| Babyface Nelson | gunman whose real name was Lester Gillis |
| Melvin Purvis | an FBI-man who pursued the motorized bandits |
| Alvin "Creepy" Karpis | last of the motorized bandits to be caught |
| the jitterbug | dance popular in the 1930s |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | a popular song during the Depression |
| The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin film that mocked Hitler |
| Ballyhoo | the first pinball game |
| Fear | FDR said this was the only thing we had to fear |
| Brain Trust | nickname for FDR's advisors |
| Fireside Chats | nickname for FDR's radio broadcasts |
| Social Security | government retirement benefits for the elderly |
| boondoggling | wasteful government spending |
| Four Freedoms | part of FDR's Inaugural Address in 1941 |
| Dust Bowl | name for the topsoil drying up and blowing away |
| Empire State Building | New York City landmark building started in 1931 |
| America First Committee | isolationist organization led by Charles Lindbergh |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | act which set the US minimum wage |
| Nye Committee | Congressional committee that suggested people drove the US into WWI to make money |
