Original policy of the United States remaining neutral before entering WW I.
What was Isolationism?
Famous Ford Motor car that revolutionized transportation.
What was the Model T?
This event on Wall Street signaled the beginnings of the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
Germany, Italy and Japan were called this during the war.
What were the Axis Powers?
Provided returning WW II veterans financial assistance for college, buying homes and getting jobs.
What was the GI Bill?
American President during the war that wanted to make the world safe for democracy.
Who was President Wilson?
The boll weevil insect destroyed thousands of acres of this important cash crop.
What was cotton?
FDR's domestic program to deal with the Great Depression hurting America.
What was the New Deal?
This new bomber called the "Super Fortress" was built at the Bell Aircraft Company in Marietta.
What was the B-29 Bomber?
This new highway system linked most of the major American cities together.
What was the Interstate HWY System?
This type of warfare on the high seas contributed to America's entry into the war.
What was submarine warfare?
Ty Cobb from Royston played baseball for this team during the 1920s.
What was the Detroit Tigers?
This Georgia governor opposed most of FDR's New Deal program because he believed it supported socialism.
Who was Gene Talmadge?
Germany's new type of warfare used against other nations involving mobility on land and in the air.
What was Blitzkrieg?
The process of people moving to cities and large towns to live.
What is urbanization?
Russia, Italy, France and Britain made up this group that won the war.
What were the Allies?
Because of the wireless telegraph in communications this new device provided news, sports and entertainment to many homes before the TV.
What was the radio?
New Deal program that provided pensions for elderly people or retired workers.
What was Social Security?
American program that provided aid such as equipment, weapons and money to the Allies during the war.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Replaced the radio as the newest form of communications for sports, weather, news and entertainment.
What was the television or TV?
American commander of the Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front.
Who was General Pershing?
She became the first US woman senator and supported the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Who was Rebecca Felton?
As governor he favored FDR's New Deal programs and introduced his own "Little New Deal" for Georgia.
Who was Governor Rivers?
Special type of ships built in Brunswick and Savannah that carried troops and supplies overseas.
What were the Liberty Ships?
Described the period of tension and rivalry between the two superpowers: US and Soviet Union.
What was the Cold War?