Alphabet agencies
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In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched his New Deal to deal with the Great Depression. The administrative style was to create new agencies. Some were set up by Congress (TVA) and others by Roosevelt's Executive Order (WPA).
[edit] List of agencies by initialism
- AAA
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933
- CAA
- Civilian Aeronautics Authority (now Federal Aviation Administration), 1933
- CCC
- Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933
- CCC
- Commodity Credit Corporation, 1933
- CWA
- Civil Works Administration, 1933
- FAP
- Federal Art Project, part of WPA 1935
- FCA
- Farm Credit Administration, 1933
- FCC
- Federal Communications Commission, 1934
- FDIC
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1933
- FERA
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933
- FHA
- Federal Housing Administration, 1934
- FMP
- Federal Music Project, part of WPA 1935
- FSA
- Farm Security Administration, 1935
- FTP
- Federal Theatre Project, part of WPA 1935
- FWP
- Federal Writers' Project, part of WPA 1935
- HOLC
- Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1933
- NLRB
- National Labor Relations Board, 1934
- NRA
- National Recovery Administration, 1933
- NYA
- National Youth Administration, part of WPA 1935
- PRRA
- Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1933
- PWA
- Public Works Administration, 1933
- RA
- Resettlement Administration, 1935
- REA
- Rural Electrification Administration, 1933
- RFC
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (originally a Hoover agency), 1932
- SEC
- Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934
- SSB
- Social Security Board, 1935
- TVA
- Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933
- USHA
- United States Housing Authority, 1937
- WPA
- Works Progress Administration, 1935
[edit] Bibliography
- Graham, Otis L. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds. Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times. (1985). encyclopedia
- Leuchtenberg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. (1963). A standard interpretive history of era.
