Great Depression
Dust Bowl
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(WWII, NEW DEAL, DUST BOWL, GREAT DEPRESSION)
(WWII, NEW DEAL, DUST BOWL, GREAT DEPRESSION)
WWII
New Deal
100
A period of poor economic performance and high unemployment.
What is the Great Depression?
100
What weather conditions helped cause the Dust Bowl?
What is little rain and hot, dry winds?
100
Put the eras in the correct chronological order
What is II, IV, I, III?
100
What word means “a leader with complete power over a country”
What is a dictator?
100
Which U.S. President was responsible for the “New Deal
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
200
What would be the best title for this bar graph?
What is unemployment?
200
Texan farmers began to migrate to _______ in order to find work away from the Dust Bowl.
What is California?
200
Human cause of the Dust Bowl
What is over-grazing of grasslands and overproduction of crops?
200
What happened in 1939 that was the official start of World War II?
What is Germany attacked Poland?
200
What was the purpose of the “New Deal”?
What is to help the U.S. get out of the Great Depression
300
The U.S. stock market crashed on October 29, 1929. This day was nicknamed
What is Black Tuesday?
300
What were the physical causes that led to the image you see here?
What is Hot, dry winds and high temperatures?
300
famous Texans served as supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe?
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
300
What event [happening on December 7, 1941] led directly to the U.S. involvement in WWII?
What is Pearl Harbor?
or
What is Japan attacked the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
300
U.S. Congressman from Texas who supported the New Deal
Who is . Sam Rayburn?
400
Though Texas didn’t feel the effects of the Great Depression immediately, eventually the prices of _____ and _____ [the two biggest industries in Texas] began to fall.
What is cotton and oil?
400
Which region of Texas saw the most damage done by dust storms?
What is the Great Plains?
400
This invention primarily used for
What is Plowing fields?
400
- there were military bases in Texas where soldiers trained
Texas had prisoner-of-war camps where enemy soldiers were held
Internment camps in Texas detained people whose loyalty was in doubt
What did Texas do to support WWII?
400
Vice President of the U.S. during the Great Depression
Who is John Nance Garner?
500
What nickname was given to the camps of homeless people that began to appear in the major cities around the U.S.?
What are Hoovervilles?
500
What did the U.S. government do to help farming in Texas after the dust storms settled?
What is they hired workers to plant trees and reshape the land?
500
What job did Herbert Hoover have when the Great Depression began
What is U.S. President?
500
Played an important role during World War as a commander of the Women’s Army Corps.
Who is Oveta Culp Hobby?
500
1. Some people said that the New Deal programs hadn’t done enough
2. Some people said that the New Deal programs had done too much.
3. Some people said that President Roosevelt had grown too powerful
What were some of the criticisms of the New Deal?