Soarin' N Roarin'
This was the nickname for the 1920s due to the booming economy and new culture of fun, fashion, and jazz.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
The Battle of Midway took place in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This 1929 event triggered the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This U.S. president was elected in 1932 and promised a "New Deal" for Americans
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
These became very popular in the 1920s and changed American entertainment forever.
What are movies?
D-Day was an Allied invasion of this country.
What is France?
These were makeshift communities of homeless people named after the president many blamed.
What are Hoovervilles?
Unemployment during the Great Depression reached this approximate percentage at its peak
What is 25%?
A major reason for the economic boom of the 1920s, many Americans bought goods using this method of delayed payment.
What is buying on credit ?
This country won the Battle of Stalingrad
What is the Soviet Union?
Many families relied on these for food during the Depression.
What are soup kitchens or bread lines?
The two Japanese cities to be hit by Atomic Bombs
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This industry exploded in the 1920s, helping Americans travel farther and creating new jobs.
What is the automobile industry?
Stalingrad was a turning point because it stopped this country's advance into the Soviet Union.
What is Germany?
Many banks failed during the Great Depression because they made too many of these risky financial decisions.
What are bad loans or unwise investments?
This was the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb.
What is the Enola Gay?
These 8th graders mat be graduating, but they still have younger Middle School siblings
Who are Adam, Drew, Clay, Isla, Liliana, Liam, Martin, Bryn, Connor B, David, Emily S, Gianna, Jack S, Jackson B, Kate, Kelsea, Zahra
British civilians responded to bombing raids by doing this.
What is taking shelter in subways or bomb shelters?
This term describes when more goods were produced than people could afford to buy.
What is overproduction?
The names of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan
What is Little Boy and Fat Man?