October 29, 1929, the day the bottom fell out of the market.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
The system set up by FDR to regulate the stock market and bring back jobs.
What is the New Deal?
100
Japan, Germany and Italy
What is the Axis Powers?
100
June 6, 1944, The allied invasion of Europe.
What is D-Day?
200
The literal belief that everything in the Bible is true.
What is fundamentalism?
200
The period in U.S. history in which the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed. During this time in history people learned to develop habits of saving and thriftiness
What is the Great Depression?
200
He wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath.
What is John Steinbeck?
200
This was signed by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939.
What is the nonagression pact?
200
May 8, 1945, the end of the war after defeating Germany.
What is V-E Day?
300
The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis.
What is Charles Lindbergh?
300
These were shantytowns that showed people's disgust for the president.
What is Hoovervilles?
300
She played a role in FDR's administration as a domestic advisor.
What is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
The systematic killing, or genocide, of the Jews by Hitler.
What is the Holocaust?
300
September 2, 1945, the end of the war in the Pacific.
What is V-J Day?
400
Author of the Great Gatsby who used his wife as a center of his stories.
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
400
The area between Texas and North Dakota that was hit with severe drought during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
This raised crop prices by lowering production.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act(AAA)?
400
December 7, 1941, where the Japanese attacked leading the US into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
Led by General Leslie Groves and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the program that led to the building of the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
The literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
500
World War I veterans and their families that camped at the capital to try and get there finances for taking part in active duty during the war.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
Protected bank deposits up to $5000.
What is FDIC?
500
The US policy to allow friendly countries to get money or munitions from the US.
What is the Lend Lease Act?
500
This plan post-WWII, revived European hopes to rebuild. This gave $13 billion in aid to some 16 countries in Western Europe.