Great Depression
What was the main cause of the Great Depression?
Stock market crash.
Who created the New Deal?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
What event led to the US joining WWII?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
What state is Hanford located in?
Washington
How many Japanese were put into the internment camps?
About 110,000
True or False: As many as 50% of all people were unemployed during the Great Depression.
False: It got as high as 25%, but not 50%.
What was the main purpose of the New Deal?
To create jobs.
What company in Seattle produced B17 bombers during the war?
Boeing
What did Hanford produce?
Plutonium
True or False: The AFL and the CIO unions would get into violent fights in the middle of the city.
True
Who was the president when the Great Depression started?
Herbert Hoover
What program hired men to work on National Forests and do outdoor work?
The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
Why were Japanese Americans put into camps during the war?
The US feared they would try to help Japan.
True or False: The people working on Hanford all knew what they were making/building.
False: very few actually knew what was going on at Hanford.
What was the purpose of the Bracero Program?
Allow Mexicans to work on farms in the US.
Who were "Okies"?
People from the Midwest (places like Oklahoma) that were migrating to California and the west coast looking for jobs and a new life.
Name 2 ways that Native Americans in the CCC could get paid extra each month.
- Live at home
-Eat at home
-Ride their own horse
Name 2 minority groups of people that stepped in to help work when the men went to war.
-Women
-African Americans
-Mexicans (farming)
What 2 other places (cities) were involved with making the atomic weapons?
Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Los Alamos, New Mexico
What was the National Labor Relations Act also known as?
The Wagner Act.
What were the radio speeches called made by President Roosevelt where he would explain what was going on in the country?
Fireside chats.
Which program hired artists, historians, and writers to paint murals and to write histories of place and people?
The WPA (Works Progress Administration)
About how many US men were killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
About 2,400
What was the name of the project that Hanford was a part of that created atomic weapons?
The Manhattan Project.
Nearly 40 years after being released from the camps, Japanese detainees were given an apology and were given compensation ($$). How much were they given?
$20,000 each