He is remembered for his leadership during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
The song "Arizona" describes how the conditions of the Dust Bowl led some people to have to do this.
What is move away from the area?
100
These countries were allies during both world wars.
What are France and Great Britain.
100
The United States ended WWII by dropping the atomic bomb on this country.
What is Japan?
100
This amendment guarantees that the right to vote cannot be taken away due to gender.
What is the 19th amendment?
200
Building this provided many jobs for men who had been out of work.
What is the Boulder Dam?
200
Many people who lived in the area where the Dust Bowl occurred struggled to make a living by--
What is farming?
200
During both world wars, many women in America--
What is performed jobs usually done by men?
200
This was the first group of African American pilots to volunteer to serve in the second world war.
What is the Tuskagee Airmen?
200
This national holiday in the U.S. Congress was established to honor those people who died in military service.
What is Memorial Day?
300
This was the plan created by FDR to help the economy and end the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
300
This caused the dust bowl.
What are long periods of drought?
300
This treaty officially ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
He was a military leader in the second world war.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
What American was responsible for inventing several common uses for peanuts?
Who is George Washington Carver?
400
This was the day the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
400
The Dust Bowl occurred during the era known as--
What is the Great Depression?
400
This international organization was created to prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
400
This was the chief cause of the outbreak of the second world war.
Germany, Italy, and Japan were ruled by aggressive dictators.
400
What was an economic effect of the radio?
People were influenced to buy products they heard advertised in commericals.
500
This was a nickname people gave their run-down neighborhoods of huts and shacks during the Great Depression. (Hint: It was named after the president they blamed for the Great Depression!)
What are Hoovervilles?
500
What states were directly affected by the dust bowl? (must names at least 3)
What are New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas?
500
These were letters that soldiers wrote from the trenches of WWI.
What are trench letters?
500
This event directly resulted in the United States entering the second world war.
What is the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
500
How did new innovations in transportation most influence U.S. society during the first half of the twentieth century?