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The year that World War II began and ended
1939-1945
Buying things on credit
Allied commander in Europe
Dwight Eisenhower
President who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb
Harry Truman
The name for FDR's overall economic policy to recover from the Great Depression
New Deal
The date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
Amendment that repealed Prohibition
21st
Led the Free French forces
Charles de Gaulle
Famous scientist who worked on the atomic bomb
Edward Teller
Act that established a government fund for old-age insurance
Social Security Act
October 29, 1929
President known as the Great Humanitarian
Herbert Hoover
Led a bombing raid over Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle
American POW who became a missionary to Japan
Jacob DeShazer
Government program created to control flooding, conserve soil, and create hydroelectric power
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The years of the Korean War
1950-1953
Speculation
German leader that was defeated in North Africa
Erwin Rommel
The US Olympic athlete who won 4 gold medals in 1936
Jesse Owens
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The year that Israel became an official nation
1948
The man who wrote The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Man that built Liberty ships for the Allies
Henry Kaiser
President Roosevelt based his economic policies on the ideas of what man
John Keynes
Act that established a minimum wage for union members
Fair Labor Standards Act