Great Depression
Federal government granting land to farmers, over farming the land, removal of original grasslands, massive drought, high winds, and massive erosion are all factors that led this environmental catastrophe.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This New Deal legislation provided financial assistance to the elderly and support for disabled & unemployed individuals and dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?
"Rosie the Riveter" was an iconic image on the American WWII Homefront that was used to encourage this demographic of Americans to enter the workforce.
Who are women?
This event was the main cause of the U.S. involvement in World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This important event in the European Theater included the invasion of France by U.S. and Allied troops and the forced retreat of the Nazis.
What is D-Day? Operation Overload is not acceptable.
Makeshift houses built by homeless Americans that were named after the President most people blamed for the Great Depression that later lost his attempt at re-election.
What are Hoovervilles?
This woman redefined the role of First Lady by being more involved in the political arena and speaking out for gender and racial equality.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The U.S. government encouraged Americans to ration goods and waste less during WWII for this purpose.
What is to conserve resources for the war effort?
The main reason why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was to eliminate the presence of what branch of the American military in the Pacific Ocean?
What is the U.S. Navy?
This battle is considered one of the deadliest battles in world history and was the last important battle in Europe during WWII.
What is the Battle (Fall) of Berlin?
Two Answers: One of the factors that led to the Stock Market Crash describes when companies make too much of a product, while the other factor describes consumers buying less of these products over time.
What are Overproduction AND Underconsumption?
This set of the New Deal programs (one of the 3Rs) were designed to stimulate economic growth by developing employment opportunities (jobs on public work projects like roads, bridges, & schools) and encouraging people to spend money.
What are Recovery programs?
DAILY DOUBLE! At the start of WWII, this provision in the Neutrality Act of 1939 said that the U.S. could sale arms and materials to other countries, but they had to pay up front and had to send their own ships to get them.
What is cash and carry?
This battle was a turning point in the Pacific Theater resulting in the U.S. using more aggressive tactics.
What is the Battle of Midway?
DAILY DOUBLE! D‑Day was only the first phase of this much larger Allied plan to liberate Western Europe from the control of the Nazis.
What is Operation Overlord?
Along with overproduction and underconsumption, this practice of risky stock buying also contributed to the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What is stock market speculation?
Franklin D. Roosevelt had the least political influence over this branch of government during his presidency because they continuously ruled his New Deal acts passed through Congress as unconstitutional.
What is the judicial branch? Supreme Court is acceptable.
FDR issued Executive Order 9066 which ordered the internment of this group of people, that he believed were possibly being used as spies by one of their enemies in WWII.
Who are the Japanese Americans?
Under this secret program, the U.S. government gave money to scientists to study and create the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This law only supplied countries the U.S. saw as vital (necessary) to defending them from initial involvement in WWII.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
As seen as a result of the Stock Market Crash that led to the Great Depression, this economic factor that tracks joblessness can increase quickly, but it can take some time for it to return to normal levels.
What is unemployment?
Three Answers: Critics of FDR's New Deal programs often likened his policies to these three ideologies because they exerted greater government control over the economy.
What is socialism, communism, AND fascism?
This activist called for a March on Washington to push President Roosevelt to end segregation in jobs in the defense industry.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
The dropping of the atomic bombs was an alternative to this strategy that President Truman knew would lead to more Allied troops dying.
What is attacking (invading) the Japanese mainland?
Two Answers: These are two reasons why it was difficult for U.S. to supply troops in Europe.
What is the threat of German submarines and long distances?