Dates
Date when the stock market crashed during the 1920s.
When is 1929?
President of the United States when the Stock Market crashed beginning the Great Depression.
Who is President Hoover?
The region of Texas that was affected the most by the Dust Bowl.
Where is the Great Plains/Panhandle?
This event was the beginning of the Great Depression
What was the stock market crash?
Countries of the Axis powers during WWII
Who is Germany, Italy and Japan?
The market's collapse came to be know as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
Large camps of homeless people living in shacks that appeared all of the cities.
What were Hoovervilles?
The wearing away of the earth's surface is known as
What is erosion?
Programs that were specifically aimed at creating jobs during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Countries of the Allied powers
Who is Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, USA and allies?
The year the unemployment rate peaked during the Great Depression.
When was 1933?
This President was elected in 1932 and re-elected in 1936 promising to take steps to end the Great Depression.
Who was President FDR?
What are the human causes of the Dust Bowl?
Severe drought, dry hard land, high winds, high temperatures and erosion all describe this event in history
Most important industry in Texas during WWII
What is the oil industry?
December 7, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
Roosevelt's Vice President that originally came from Texas.
Who is John Nance Garner?
During WWII Texas had twice as many of these to detain possible threats
What were prisoner of war camps?
Take over of farms by banks due to failure to make payments
What is foreclosure?
1939 that officially began WWII overseas
What is Germany attacking Poland?
When was 1939-1945?
This Texas Congressman focused on the rural community and farmers during the Great Depression.
Who is Sam Rayburn?
Significant of Oveta Hobby and Dwight Eisenhower during WWII
What was the commander of the Women's Army Corps?
What was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe?
The U.S government did this to help farming in Texas to settle the dust storms
What is planting trees and reshaping land?
Event that ended WWII and caused Japan to surrender
What was V-J Day?
What was the atomic bomb?