New Challenges
War and Change
Great Depression
World War II
Politics
100
This occurs when water, wind, or ice wears away soil and rock.
What is erosion?
100
The war that started in Europe in 1914.
What is World War I?
100
An event in which high water overflowed the MS River valley and destroyed homes, farms, and towns.
What is the Great Flood of 1927.
100
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Who are the Axis Powers?
100
A change to make things better.
What is a reform?
200
A wall of earth and other materials built along the banks of a river or along the edges of farmland to prevent flooding.
What is a levee?
200
Great Britain, Russia, France, and later the United States.
What were the Allied Powers?
200
The stock market crashed, many businesses failed, and many people had no jobs.
What is the Great Depression?
200
Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and later the United States.
Who are the Allies?
200
To separate two groups.
What is segregate?
300
A tiny black insect that could destroy a cotton crop.
What is a boll weevil?
300
Germany and Austria-Hungary
What were the Central Powers?
300
The American president elected in 1932 who started government programs to help struggling Americans.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
300
The youngest man to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II.
Who is Jack Lucas?
300
A group of people who share similar ideas about government.
What is a political party?
400
A period of time from 1915-1920 when 100,000 African Americans left Mississippi.
What is the Great Migration?
400
Government programs introduced during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
400
Where Japanese planes bombed the United States naval base on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
The political party that included farmers who organized in favor of government reforms.
What is the Populist Party?
500
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
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