In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched his New Deal to deal with the [[Great Depression in the United States| 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).

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

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.

New Deal agencies