Great Depression
What year did the stock market crash?
1929
This US President created the New Deal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hitler’s action in 1939 that officially began WWII
Invasion of Poland
This Happened on December 7, 1941, which got U.S. involved in the War
Attack on Pearl Harbor
President at the beginning of WWII.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
The area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts dried up farmland?
The Dust Bowl
These were FDR's radio programs that families listened to in the evening.
Fireside Chats
June 6, 1944, invasion of German-controlled France
D-Day (Invasion of Normandy
Allied strategy to reach Japan one island at a time
Island Hopping
1st lady, rallied women through the crisis, eyes and ears of the President
Eleanor Roosevelt
Shantytowns named after President Hoover
Hoovervilles
Provided unemployment insurance and pensions to the elderly.
Social Security Act
Name 3 Allied Powers
1. Great Britain,
2. United States,
3.Soviet Union
4. France
President at the end of the war who dropped the atomic bombs.
Harry S. Truman
Supreme Commander of Allied forces who orchestrated D-Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was president when the Great Depression began.
Herbert Hoover
Program for young men planting trees and fighting forest fires
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC
Name 3 Axis Powers
1.Germany,
2.Italy,
3.Japan
This Forced the relocation of Japanese Americans into internment camps
Executive Order 9066
Known for photographing the misery of the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange
Name 3 causes of the Great Depression.
Overproduction,
unequal distribution of wealth,
consumers buying goods on easy credit,
buying stocks on margin,
bank failures,
Smoot-Hawley Tariffs
Name all 4 New Deal Programs that still exist today
1. Social Security Administration (SSA),
2.Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),
3.Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
4. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Name both groups who provided much of the factory work during the war.
Women and Minorities
Commander of the Navy in the Pacific
Chester Nimitz
Author of The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck