Boom and Bust
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
WWII
Vocab
100
This is when a particular part of the economy, such as the oil industry, is growing quickly and there are lots of new jobs and times are good.
Boom
100
October 29th, 1929
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
100
Which event came first: Great Depression or Dust Bowl?
Great Depression
100
WWI and WWII will increase demand for goods such as cotton. Therefor, prices for cotton _______? (Supply/Demand)
Increase
100
U.S, Russia, France, Great Britian, Serbia
Allies (WWI)
200
A bust is when part of the economy shrinks and people lose prosperity and they also lose what that gives way to hard times.
Jobs
200
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Public Works Admin. (PWA)
Workers Progress Admin. (WPA)
New Deal Agencies
200
Famous book about an Oklahoma family fleeing their farm in order to escape the dust bowl. They migrate to California in search of Jobs during the Depression.
Grapes of Wrath 
200
Dec. 7th, 1941
"A date which will live in infamy"
Attack on Pearl Harbor
200
Germany, Italy, Japan
Axis Powers (WWII)
300
This gushing black gold replaced agriculture to be the leading economic activity in the early 20th Century.
Oil
300
F.D.R stands for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
300
Drought, over farming, and over grazing
Causes of the Dust Bowl
300
Name of famous propaganda poster encouraging women to join the work force during WWII.
Rosie the Riveter
300
Rationing
What is to allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity).
"shoes were rationed from 1943"
400
Negative impacts from the oil boom
Oil and gas drilling has a serious impact on our wildlands and communities. Drilling projects operate around the clock generating pollution, fueling climate change, disrupting wildlife and damaging public lands that were set aside to benefit all people.
400
CCC was a program in the ___________?
The New Deal
400
June 6th, 1944
D-Day
400
Breadline
What was used to feed thousands of unemployed people during the great depression.
500
Americans are being asked to plant what?
Victory Gardens
500
Examples of New Deal programs that still exist today.
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SEC, TVA, etc.
500
Another name for dust storms during the Dust Bowl
Black Blizzards
500
Manufacturing increased fourfold, the permanent population increased, and the urbanization and modernization of Texas were well underway. Many military installations closed at the end of the war, and some wartime boomtowns were all but abandoned. Because of World War II, the face of Texas changed forever.
What happened to Texas during WWII
500
Propaganda
used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.