Georgia and WWI
This was the first War the World?
What is WWI
This tiny critter caused massive damage to Georgia cotton farms.
What is the Boll Weevil?
The acronym AAA stood for this.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Fascist leader of Germany at the start of WWII.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Name of the airplane used in WWII that was only built in Georgia.
What was the B-29 Bomber?
This increased during WWI bringing prosperity to GA farmers?
What is Cotton
As a result of the Georgia's cotton catastrophe, farmers had to grow other crops such as tobacco, pecans, and this southern Georgian staple.
What are peanuts?
FDR visted the Little White house in Warm springs for this purpose?
What is his debilitating illness polio?
The United States developed this program to aid it's allies in WWII and while remaining neutral.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
He helped secure 15 military installations, over 25 research facilities, and federal funding for construction of military installations through Georgia.
Who was Richard B. Russell?
People grew these to meet domestic needs and make resources avaliable for troops overseas?
What is Victory Gardens?
This natural disaster was made worse by the overuse of soil and overproduction of crops throughout the state.
What was the Drought of 1924.
New Deal program that gave businesses low-interest loans to help bring electricity to Georgia farms.
What was the REA (Rural Electrification Act)
To limit the ability of the US to project power in the pacific Japan did this?
What is bomb Pearl Harbor?
Two Georgia coastal cities that built Liberty Ships and created thousands of jobs which had a positive impact on the economy of GA?
Where is Brunswick and Savannah?
The actual reason why the United States entered WWI.
What is the attacks on US military ships by Germany?
The Boll Weevil infestation and drought led to a massive relocation of African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers to urban areas for jobs.
What was the Great Migration?
He opposed many of the New Deal programs in Georgia due to his belief in State's Rights.
Who is Eugene Talmadge?
This horrific, historic event was caused German aggression and hatred towards German Jews.
What was the Holocaust?
Known as the "Father of the Two-Ocean Navy and fought for a stronger navy, including the expansion of naval aviation and fewer restrictions on shipbuilding.
Who was Carl Vinson?
These were grown by Georgia in an effort to supply more food for US troops in WWI.
What are Victory Gardens
What is the droughrts and boll weevil.
This helped GA destroy the boll weevil and recover during the agricultural crisis?
What is insecticide.
Name of the two Japanese cities destroyed when the United States dropped the deployed the world's first atomic bombs.
Where is Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
Name of the factory in Marietta, GA that produced the B-29 Bomber.
What is the Bell Bomber Plant.