The Great Depression
This was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
This president implemented the New Deal programs to combat the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
FDR's December 8, 1941 address to Congress about 'premeditated invasion' was in response to this attack
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This was responsible for overseeing the conversion of civilian industries to military production during World War II.
What is the War Production Board?
In the Declaration of Independence, colonists argued that governments must do this or lose legitimacy.
What is protect citizens' rights?
According to FDR in 1933, American factories produced more of these than could be consumed, while facing falling export demand.
What are goods and crops?
The WPA, TVA, SSA, and FDIC programs show that the federal government took this new role in American society.
What is an active role in protecting individual prosperity?
The U.S. placed embargoes on steel, scrap iron, aviation fuel, and oil to Japan in 1940-41 because of Japanese aggression in these regions.
What are China and Southeast Asia?
The public used this during WWII to prevent shortages.
What is rationing?
The Monroe Doctrine was enforceable partly because this ocean created a natural barrier to European interference.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These environmental conditions caused people to move from the Great Plains to western states during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This New Deal agency provides income for the disabled and people over age 65, funded by a tax on worker income.
What is the Social Security Administration?
This 1942 battle stopped Japan from further expansion in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
During WWII, women's access to these types of jobs expanded dramatically.
What are nontraditional (or industrial) jobs?
The agree ultimately failed because it deepened sectional divisions by leaving slavery unresolved.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
According to Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve's failure to lend cash to banks or increase currency circulation led to this crisis.
What is banks failing as depositors panicked and withdrew their funds?
In 1937, FDR submitted this plan to increase the number of Supreme Court justices to overcome the Court's rulings that declared New Deal legislation unconstitutional.
What is court packing?
The U.S. 'island-hopping' strategy in the Pacific enabled the military to do this to the Japanese mainland.
What is launch air attacks?
A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington resulted in this executive order prohibiting discrimination in the defense industry.
What is Executive Order 8802?
This Civil War battle is known as the bloodiest single day in U.S. history.
What is Antietam?
These makeshift communities of homeless people during the Great Depression were named after the president blamed for the economic crisis.
What are Hoovervilles?
This First Lady's extensive travels and firsthand accounts of poverty during the Great Depression informed her advocacy for New Deal relief efforts.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The Potsdam Declaration's ultimatum for unconditional surrender resulted in the U.S. taking this action against Japan
What is dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
This executive order deprived liberty based on ethnicity by authorizing Japanese internment.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The Treaty of Paris in 1898 ended the Spanish-American War and granted the U.S. control of these three territories.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?