Great Depression
New Deal
World War II at Home
European Theater
Pacific Theater
100

The crash of this is often considered to be the start of the Great Depression

What is the stock market?

100

The WPA, PWA, CCC, AAA, SSA, CWA, and TVA are all examples of these

What are New Deal agencies?

100

US foreign policy at the start of World War II

What is neutrality?

100

European country that benefitted most from the Lend-Lease Act

What is Great Britain?

100

The bombing of this US naval base led the US to join World War II

What was Pearl Harbor?

200

This cause of the depression meant that factories were making too many products

What was industrial overproduction?

200

The wife of FDR who advocated for New Deal programs that would help others, not just young men.

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

200

This was the difference between what women could do during World War I and World War II?

What is fighting in the army?

200

The Allied invasion at Normandy (along the coast of France)

What is D-Day?
200

The two cities upon which the US dropped the atomic bombs?

What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

300

Shantytowns in which many Americans lived during the Depression

What were Hoovervilles?

300

This act provided support for the elderly and still exists today.

What was the Social Security Act?

300

Word that means limiting your consumption of a product to ensure there is enough

What is rationing?

300

This policy allowed the US to provide weapons to countries that were considered "critical" to US defense.

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

300

Allied strategy to reclaim Pacific islands from the Japanese empire

What was island hopping?

400

These occurred after the stock market crash, as Americans feared they would lose their life savings

What were banking panics?

400

This group believed that the New Deal made government too powerful and should be limited

Who were conservatives?

400

Executive Order 9066 required the forced relocation of this group to internment camps

Who were Japanese Americans?

400

The fall of this city marked the end of the war in Europe

What is Berlin?

400

This moral and strategic Allied victory in the Pacific showed that the Allies' strategy of island hopping was working

What is the Battle of Midway?

500

Two main causes of the Dust Bowl

What are overfarming and a 10 year drought?

500

The 3 R's of FDR's New Deal

What were relief, recovery, and reform?

500

The two things Black soldiers were fighting as part of the "Double V" campaign

What are racism at home and the Axis Powers/Nazis abroad?

500

The victory at D-Day allowed the Allies to do this in Europe

What is transporting supplies and/or fighting a two front war?

500

These were TWO of the main difficulties for the Allies fighting in the Pacific

What are transporting and storing supplies?