World War I
What is: Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
Year the Great Depression begins
What is 1929?
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Years of US involvement in WWII
What is 1942-1945?
2 reasons for US involvement in WWI
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and Zimmerman Telegram?
Why the Great Depression began
What is: the Stock Market crash of 1929?
Reason(s) Dust Bowl happened
What are: drought and poor farming practices?
John Nance Garner
Summarize the Zimmerman Telegram
What is: Germany promised to aid Mexico in invading the US to take back former territory, but note was intercepted by Great Britain and given to the US
President at the start of the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Name 2 social effects of the Dust Bowl
What are: illnesses and people moving?
Name 2 contributions of Texans during the war
What are: rationing, buying war bonds, enlisting to fight
Did not fight during war
John Nance Garner/Sam Rayburn
How did the war impact women's suffrage?
What is: women argued they were a huge part in the running of businesses and supporting the war effort they should get suffrage in return
What is the New Deal?
How long the Dust Bowl lasted
What is about 6 years?
New role for women during this war
What is enlisting in the WASP/air force
Leader of the Women's Army Corps
Oveta Culp Hobby
Name a political, economic, and social effect of WWI in Texas
What are: new military bases, women enter the workforce, and rationing?
Give one social and one economic effect of the Great Depression
What is: answers vary
State many people migrated to because of Dust Bowl
What is California?
Summarize the Bracero Program
What is: a program that brought Mexican immigrants to Texas to work
Describe Audie Murphy