World War 2 Abroad
The two major areas in which the war was fought.
What are the European and Pacific Theaters?
The event that most people view as the start of the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash?
A program that everyone pays into, and gives direct payments to elderly or disabled people. Still exists today.
What is Social Security?
What is rationing?
The currently sitting president when the Great Depression began
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The attack that caused the US to join the war
What is Pearl Harbor?
Semi-permanent homeless camps named to criticize the president
What are Hoovervilles?
The radio addresses FDR gave to explain his plan to the American people
What are the Fireside Chats?
A female factory worker who featured in many propaganda posters to encourage women to work
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The president who got elected promising a "New Deal"
Who is FDR?
What is D-Day?
An ecological crisis that made farming difficult in the Midwest
What is the Dust Bowl?
One of the New Deal's big critics, proposed the "Share Our Wealth" program
Who was Huey Long?
A major civil rights campaign conducted by black people
What is the Double V Campaign?
The President forced to decide whether or not to use the nuclear bomb
Who is Harry Truman?
A controversial action to end the war in Japan as quickly as possible
What is the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
When lots of people try to withdraw from the bank, resulting in the bank running out of money
What is a bank run?
FDR's plan for the Supreme Court that resulted in a lot of criticism
What is court packing?
Gardens people had in their homes to make food
What are victory gardens?
The first activist First Lady, who campaigned for many causes and encouraged the New Deal to become more helpful
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
A secret project by the Allies to develop the nuclear bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
One of the biggest causes, fixed by the SEC
What is stock market speculation?
The three goals of the New Deal programs
What are relief, recovery and reform?
The effect of FDR's Executive Order 9066
What is Japanese internment?
This was passed after FDR died, restricting Presidents to serve only two terms
What is the 22nd Amendment?