Change in the PNW
Programs that created jobs building roads, dams, and parks
The New Deal
River where the Grand Coulee Dam was built
Columbia River
Event that led directly to U.S. entry into WWII
Pearl Harbor attack
Major WA company that built airplanes
Boeing
Government order that allowed internment
Executive Order 9066
President who created the New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Main purpose of the Grand Coulee Dam
Electricity and irrigation (To create government jobs to combat unemployment)
Country the U.S. was fighting in the Pacific
Japan
Type of products WA State produced most during WWII
Ships and airplanes
Reason for Japanese internment
Fear after Pearl Harbor
Natural resource Roosevelt wanted to develop in the Pacific Northwest
Water power / rivers
Group of people most negatively affected by the dam
Native Americans
Year the U.S. entered WWII
1941
Secret WWII project to build the atomic bomb
The Manhattan Project
Where Japanese Americans were sent
Internment camps
Main reason Roosevelt focused on the PNW
To provide jobs and electricity
One major loss for Native Americans due to the dam
Fishing sites / salmon access
World event that helped end the Great Depression
World War II
Washington site that produced plutonium
Hanford
One major impact of internment
Loss of rights and property
Type of infrastructure heavily funded in WA during the New Deal
Dams
How the dam helped Washington agriculture
Provided water for farming
Reason many Americans supported entering the war
To defend the U.S. after attack
Why Hanford was chosen
Remote location with access to water and power
How internment is viewed today
Unjust / violation of rights