Crash & Depression
This event on October 29, 1929 caused the economy to collapse.
What is Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)?
A long period with little to no rainfall.
What is a drought?
This president believed people should rely on themselves and charities.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
A ruler with complete power over a country.
What is a dictator?
Texas provided about this percentage of oil during WWII.
What is 80%?
Buying stocks with borrowed money helped cause this economic disaster.
What is the Great Depression?
This natural force picked up topsoil and eroded away the top soil creating dust storms.
What is wind?
These were camps where homeless people lived during the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This policy allowed countries to ignore aggressive nations to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
Texas was a good place for these during WWII.
What are military bases?
When supply is higher than demand, this happens to prices.
What is prices decrease?
Farmers made the Dust Bowl worse by doing this to the land.
What is over plowing?
This president created programs to help people and fix the economy.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
Germany invaded this country to start WWII.
What is Poland?
Many people moved to cities for this reason during WWII.
What are jobs/work?
Many people lost their homes during the Great Depression due to this.
What is foreclosure?
Ranchers contributed by allowing this to happen.
What is overgrazing?
The New Deal focused on these three goals.
What are Relief, Recovery, Reform?
This event caused the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
These limited items like food, gas, and tires during the war.
What is rationing?
Name TWO major effects of the Great Depression.
What are unemployment, homelessness, bank failures, business closures?
What was one major result of the Dust Bowl for Texans?
What is migration to places like California?
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What is the death of plants, and animals
Name one New Deal program that created jobs if you? name more (EXTRA POINTS)
What is CCC, WPA, or PWA?
Before entering the war, the U.S. helped allies by providing this.
What are supplies and money?
Name one group that gained new job opportunities during WWII.
What are women, African Americans, or Mexican Americans?