Crossword Puzzle Reid Rothman

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Across
  1. 3. Elected governor 4 times (but died before he took office for his 4th term). Did not support the New Deal. Scandal during 3rd term will cause UGA to lose its accreditation. Supported white supremacy and gained most of his votes from rural farmers.
  2. 6. A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
  3. 8. A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
  4. 9. Another leading component to the start of the Great Depression. The stock became very popular in the 1920's, then in 1929 in took a steep downturn and many lost their money and hope they had put in to the stock.
  5. 11. 1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security
  6. 13. Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack devastated the American fleet. America declared war on Japan.
  7. 15. US President - "December 7th, 1941 - a day which will live in infamy..."
  8. 16. A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.
Down
  1. 1. New Deal program designed to build the capabilities to bring electricity to rural areas
  2. 2. So many crops were grown, a lot of them were thrown away.
  3. 4. A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
  4. 5. A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
  5. 7. A long period without rain.
  6. 10. GA Governor and U.S. Senator (seven consecutive terms). chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee-helped to bring military bases to GA. "father of the school lunch program"
  7. 12. a small beetle that attacks the bolls, where the cotton fibers are formed
  8. 14. Served in the US House of Representatives for 50 years. (longer than any other congressman in US history). "Father of the two ocean navy".
  9. 17. A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States.