National+History+Day

__THEME- Debate and Diplomacy in History, Successes, Failures, and Consequences__

 * Debate- Arguing between one party to another
 * Diplomacy- When there are agreements or negotiation with countries
 * Success- A victory, when you've accomplished something well
 * Failure- A loss, when you don't accomplish something
 * Consequences- The rebound affect of something that you do, outcomes or results

Research Question: Which of the Programs efforts proved to better conditions against The Great Depression?
//**Works Progress Administration**// [|WPA Wikipedia] //﻿// //**Civilian Conservation Corps**// [|CCC Wikipedia] [|Book Rags CCC] //﻿////**Critics/Termination**//
 * .The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was finally in progress when Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order in 1935
 * Goal: To give the unemployed Americans public jobs to help the effort against The Great Depression.
 * The WPA did major services for communities such as making sure they had schools and parks, feeding the children, constructed roads and buildings, and did a lot of projects involving media, literacy, and drama.
 * By 1936, WPA had already employed over 3.4 Americans within a year of progress.
 * From 1935 to 1943, the WPA had given almost eight million jobs.
 * The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is another program signed off as Executive Order 6101 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Also known as Roosevelt's Tree Army.
 * Goal: Provide jobs for conservation projects to men ages 18-25 who were not married and were struggling for relief.
 * At first, the rate of employment was 300,000 and it went up to 2.5 million in nine years running.
 * Payed $30 a month but $25 went to the parents of these young men
 * U.S. Army in charge of operation.
 * They were in charge of the effort to renew forests and in total planted about 3 billion trees in 9 years since it started.
 * People from the private sector thought that the works of the WPA were threatening their jobs, and others were saying it was way too socialist even going as far as to call it "a seedbed for communists."
 * Many nicknames were made up to make fun of the WPA like "Working Piss Ants" and "We Poke Along"
 * The CCC Was also criticized by conservatives who called it socialism.
 * Many programs including the CCC and WPA were terminated to start making progress towards the beginning of World War II

//**Homework:[|WPA History] [|CCC History]**//