The Great Depression
Caused the economic prosperity of the 1920s to come to an end
BONUS AVAILABLE
What is the stock market crash?
BONUS: When did the stock market crash?
One result of the government not supervising banks and the stock market
What was people's money and stock investments were not protected?
TRUE OR FALSE:
Most Japanese Americans were loyal to the United States during WWII
What is TRUE?
Name three Allied Powers
BONUS POINTS
What were United States, China, England, Soviet Union and France
BONUS - Name all three Axis Powers
Great Plains drought 1930-1940 lasting for a decade left many farm families destitute
What is the Dust Bowl?
Give an example how a story we read about regarding how bad the Great Depression was:
--Seattle child died from eating weeds because there was no food in the house
--Carboard for shoes
--Clothes made from stitching together old clothes
--Potatoes were only option for food
Began New Deal programs to help nation out of Depression also great leader through most of WWII
BONUS POINTS
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
BONUS: How did FDR actions affect people in Washington state?
TRUE OR FALSE
Many of the people sent to internment camps were citizens of the US
What is TRUE?
This was the initial attitude of Americans regarding WWII before Pearl Harbor
Adamant on not getting involved in a European conflict
The largest New Deal project in Washington State
What was the building of the Grand Coulee Dam?
The reason farmers burned their fruit trees during the Dust Bowl?
What is it was cheaper than buying fuel?
People blamed President Hoover for the effects of the Great Depression because of this
What is he had no workable plan to end it?
T or F: German Americans and Italian Americans were also relocated and imprisoned
False
The industries that grew as a result of WWII?
BONUS POINTS
What were aluminum, airplane production, and shipbuilding?
BONUS: Why was the Northwest both a shipping and shipbuilding center during WWII?
What did the Works Progress Administration (WPA) do?
Hired musicians, writers, historians, and artists to bring new art and history and literature to cities
Effects of the Dust Bowl on people in the PNW
dust storms, forest land lost due to fires, farmers lost money, many people migrated to the PNW looking for jobs due to the inhospitable environment of the Midwest
What is WWII?
The reason Japanese Americans were interned
What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor/fear of Japanese invasion, that Japanese Americans might be spies
This guy was the President during the majority of WWII before he died from a stroke
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What was the main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Build trails, conserve nature, plant trees, fought forest fires, ran fish hatcheries, etc.
What were the name of the shack villages named after the President during the Great Depression?
What were Hoovervilles?
Give an example of what people were willing to do just to try and get a job during the Great Depression
What was start wild fires in forests, to then apply as a firefighter
The name of the camp that most Washington Japanese Americans were sent to
BONUS POINTS
What is Minidoka Relocation Center?
Bonus: Where was Minidoka located?
Give two examples of how the war impacted children in the PNW
-Songs at school were war-themed
-Kids radio programs were war-themed
-Games kids played were war-themed
-Kids would recycle metal and rubber for the war
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Grand Coulee Dam
Advantages: created jobs, source of electricity, new water source
Disadvantages: affected Native American tribal lands, salmon runs