State that received too many homeless farmers looking work during the Great Depression
What is California?
100
A situation in which people lose confidence in the banks and try to take out all their money; when too many people do this, the bank runs out of money
What is a bank run?
100
Dates of World War II
What is 1939-1945
100
Definition of "holocaust"
What is "sacrifice by fire"?
200
Name given to bankrupted farmers who left their farms in the Dust Bowl and traveled to California
What are Okies?
200
The countries Hitler invaded before World War II (in order)
What are Austria, the Sudentenland, Czechoslovakia and Poland?
200
Negative result of overfarming, overproduction and drought in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
Date the United States entered World War II
What is 1941?
200
An innovative way FDR used technology to communicate with the nation
What are Fireside Chats?
300
Famous photographer who photographed migrants from the Dust Bowl, including most famously "The Migrant Mother"
Who is Dorothea Lange?
300
Program instituted under the New Deal that is now in serious trouble today; politicians can't agree on how to fix it
What is social security?
300
The biggest military mistake Hitler made
What is the invasion of the USSR?
300
Year the Great Depression began
What is 1929?
300
A poverty-inducing system in which poor farmers don't own their land, but farm it and give a portion of their crops to the landowner
What is sharecropping?
400
British Prime Minister who signed an agreement with Hitler, claiming to have "secured peace for our time"
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
400
Location where British soldiers got trapped between the English Channel and German forces; escaped to England by thousands of private boats and shipping vessels
What is Dunkirk?
400
War often viewed as a dress rehearsal for World War II
What is the Spanish Civil War?
400
Year Hitler took power in Germany
What is 1933?
400
Three R's of the New Deal
What are relief, recovery and reform?
500
American president who made the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in war
Who is Harry Truman?
500
Hitler's tactic early on in World War II; means "lightning war"
What is blitzkreig?
500
Night Jewish businesses and homes were attacked in Germany in the 1930s; means "night of broken glass"
What is Kristallnacht?
500
Day Pearl Harbor was attacked
What is Dec 7, 1941?
500
Short-lived government in Germany between World War I and World War II; very unpopular because it printed money to pay reparations from World War I and caused staggering inflation as a result