Boom and Bust Intro Crossword
Across
- 3. customers desire or willingness to buy a specific product
- 4. towers that support oil drilling equipment
- 6. people supporting the war that are not part of the military
- 8. the total amount of a good that is available for people to buy
- 9. dark, think liquid used as fuel; also called petroleum
- 11. last names of the two guys that struck oil at Spindletop
- 12. France, Britain, Russia, and later the United States alliance name during WW1
- 14. 1900 hurricane that destroyed the booming business and life on Galveston Island
- 15. year World War 2 began
- 16. World War that introduced trench warfare
- 17. year that oil was found in Texas at Spindletop
- 18. Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy alliance name during WW1
Down
- 1. alternate periods of high and low levels of economic activity in the business cycle
- 2. name of illness going around as an epidemic following World War 1
- 5. World War that Hitler led Germany through
- 7. nickname for the 1920s; society and the economy booming following WW1
- 10. World War 1 is considered the _______ conflict in World History
- 13. a person who works on an oil rig
- 15. gave women the right to vote; women's suffrage