Causes of the Depression
These limited foreign trade and foreign investment. It also made it difficult for foreign countries to export goods to the US and pay back debts.
What are tariffs on world trade?
These 2 future WWII heroes were sent to deal with the 15,000 WWI veterans who arrived in Washington DC in 1932.
Who are Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur?
This is the region that the Dust Bowl affected.
What is the Great Plains region?
This is who the Hoover Dam is named after.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Hoover believed in this kind of economy when he took office.
This happened when investors would buy shares of stock in a company for the sole purpose of selling them once they increase in value. This led to falsely high stock prices.
What is stock speculation?
Hoover called the WWI veterans who marched on Washington this.
What are communists and criminals?
Name 2 states the Dust Bowl affected.
What is Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado?
This is how much the Hoover Dam cost.
What is 700 million?
The National Credit Organization helped these survive.
What are smaller banks?
By 1933 roughly 50% of these had closed.
What are banks?
WWI vets were scheduled to receive their money for fighting in this year.
What is 1945?
Name 1 reason the Dust Bowl was created.
What is poor farming techniques, overplanting, not rotating crops depleting topsoil?
Name 1 thing the Hoover Dam currently provides to 7 western states.
What is electricity, flood control, or water?
The Federal Home Loan Bank Act was a measure enacted to protect this.
What are people's homes?
This is the bank for banks.
What is the FED (federal reserve)?
WWI vets who marched on Washington DC in 1932 wanted this bill passed.
What is the Putnam Bill?
This is the percentage of families who left the dust bowl region for a new start.
What is 60%?
The construction of the Hoover Dam provided these for people.
What are jobs?
The Reconstruction Finance Corp was enacted to protected owners of these.
What are small businesses?
This happened when people bought stock gambling that the price would rise.
What is "buying on the margin"?
The approximately 15,000 WWI veterans who marched on Washington DC in the spring of 1932 were referred to as this.
What is Bonus Army?
This is the name of the book that told the plight of the Okies.
What is the "Grapes of Wrath"?
This is the state the Hoover Dam is located.
What is Nevada?
This is what Dorothea Lang was known for in the 1930's.
What is photojournalism, photography, photographer?