Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
How did World War I begin?
100
Insect which ate Georgia’s most important cash crop, Cotton.
What is the boll weevil?
100
4 Times
How many times was Talmadge elected governor of Georgia?
100
Roosevelt’s plan to end the depression
What is the New Deal?
100
American policy, at the beginning of WWII, to lend or lease (rent) weapons to Great Britain
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
200
France, Russia, and Great Britain
What is the Triple Entente?
200
A time period with little or no rainfall.
What is a drought?
200
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What president did Talmadge hate for his New Deal programs?
200
Created jobs for young men
Men worked in exchange for housing, food, and money
Built many of GA’s parks, sewer systems, bridges, etc.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
200
The reason the U.S. entered WWII?
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
300
Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Austria-Hungary and Germany
What are the Central Powers?
300
Stock market prices fell to the bottom; millions of people lost all of their wealth
What is The Stock Market Crash?
300
Talmadge had Board of Regents fire dean at UGA
Dean only wanted to integrate UGA
This event cost Talmadge not to be re-elected governor of GA
What is the Cocking Affair?
300
Raised the price of farm products by limiting supply Farmers were paid to produce less to drive the price up so each farmer made for money for their crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
400
The sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
What are the reasons that the United States entered World War I?
400
Money that is given to a customer with a promise that it will be repaid
What is credit?
400
The County Unit System
What is the system that Talmadge manipulated to be elected governor of Georgia?
400
Brought electricity to the rural (country) areas of the U.S.
What is the Rural Electrification Authority (REA)?
400
USA, Great Britain, Soviet Union
What are the Allies?
500
An armistice was declared on November 11, 1918
What ended World War I?
500
A person would pay only a portion of the price of a stock hoping that the value will go up.
What is speculation?
500
He died before he could take office
Why did Eugene Talmadge not serve his 4th term?
500
Helped to provide old-age benefits for retiring workers
Also offered insurance for the unemployed and disabled