GD/DB and WWII

Great Depression/Dust Bowl

100

This event actually helped up get out of the Great Depression

What is WWII

200

This program was created in efforts to help America recover from the Great Depression

What is the New Deal?

300

He was the president during the majority of the Great Depression

Herbert Hoover

400

This is the cause of the dust bowl

Overuse (farming) of fields that led to the 6 feet of topsoil disappearing leaving nothing but sand behind during the dry season.

500

These are 3 different causes that led to the Great Depression

What are buying stocks on margin(stock market speculation), consumer credit, overproduction, mistakes from the federal reserve, Smoot-Hawley Act (tariffs for imported goods that created tariffs on American exports to other countries)

New Deal

100

He was the president who was responsible for the New Deal

Who is FDR? 

200

This act assists older Americans by providing financial support

What is the Social Security Act?

300

This was a nickname given to New Deal programs designed to help the US get out of the depression

What is Alphabet Soup?

400

These are the 3 R's FDR used when creating the New Deal Programs

What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform

500

The Securities Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were responsible for this 

What is creating rules to protect the stock market and banks from crashing/running out of money

Pacific Theater

100

Due to this event the US enters the War in the Pacific Theater

What is the attack on Pearl Harbor

200

This was the strategic plan to move closer to Japan

What is Island Hopping?

300

This battle marks the turning point in the Pacific Theater as it sends Japan from the offensive side to the defensive side as Allied powers progressed

What is the Battle of Midway?

400

This was the name given to the project in which the United States was building atomic bombs

What is the Manhattan Project?

500

This was the reason given by the US for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan

What is ending the war quickly and saving American lives?

European Theater

100

These are the different ways that people helped on the Homefront

What is rationing food, victory gardens, war bonds, and conservation

200

The attempted genocide of the Jewish population is known as this

What is the Holocaust?

300

The event that is known as the turning point of the war in the European Theater

What is D-Day or Operation Overlord? Storming the beaches of Normandy 

400

This event marks the start of WWII

What is Germany invading/reclaiming Poland?

500

This act/program was responsible for providing aid to Allied powers without the US's direct involvement

What is the Lend Lease Act?