Great Depression
The crash of this is often considered to be the start of the Great Depression
What is the stock market?
The WPA, PWA, CCC, AAA, SSA, CWA, and TVA are all examples of these
What are New Deal agencies?
US foreign policy at the start of World War II
What is neutrality?
European country that benefitted most from the Lend-Lease Act
What is Great Britain?
The bombing of this US naval base led the US to join World War II
What was Pearl Harbor?
This cause of the depression meant that factories were making too many products
What was industrial overproduction?
The wife of FDR who advocated for New Deal programs that would help others, not just young men.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
This was the difference between what women could do during World War I and World War II?
What is fighting in the army?
The Allied invasion at Normandy (along the coast of France)
The two cities upon which the US dropped the atomic bombs?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Shantytowns in which many Americans lived during the Depression
What were Hoovervilles?
This act provided support for the elderly and still exists today.
What was the Social Security Act?
Word that means limiting your consumption of a product to ensure there is enough
What is rationing?
This policy allowed the US to provide weapons to countries that were considered "critical" to US defense.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Allied strategy to reclaim Pacific islands from the Japanese empire
What was island hopping?
These occurred after the stock market crash, as Americans feared they would lose their life savings
What were banking panics?
This group believed that the New Deal made government too powerful and should be limited
Who were conservatives?
Executive Order 9066 required the forced relocation of this group to internment camps
Who were Japanese Americans?
The fall of this city marked the end of the war in Europe
What is Berlin?
This moral and strategic Allied victory in the Pacific showed that the Allies' strategy of island hopping was working
What is the Battle of Midway?
Two main causes of the Dust Bowl
What are overfarming and a 10 year drought?
The 3 R's of FDR's New Deal
What were relief, recovery, and reform?
The two things Black soldiers were fighting as part of the "Double V" campaign
What are racism at home and the Axis Powers/Nazis abroad?
The victory at D-Day allowed the Allies to do this in Europe
What is transporting supplies and/or fighting a two front war?
These were TWO of the main difficulties for the Allies fighting in the Pacific
What are transporting and storing supplies?