Social Studies Vocabulary

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  1. 2. 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.
  2. 8. 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.
  3. 11. 32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII
  4. 14. Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack devastated the American fleet. America declared war on Japan.
  5. 15. The laws passed by the U.S. allowing us to give aid to our Allies in early WWII
  6. 16. Too many crops were grown than needed
  7. 17. Served in the US House of Representatives for 50 years. (longer than any other congressman in US history). "Father of the two ocean navy".
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  1. 1. January 1917 the British intercepted a telegram from the German government to the Mexican government offering German support if Mexico declared war against the US; offered to return land Mexico lost the US.
  2. 3. Russell served as Georgia's governor two years and was known for simplifying the state's government. After this he was one of Georgia's U.S. senators for the next 38 years. His best known accomplishments as a Senator are his support of the military and along with his partnership of Carl Vinson, their ability to get numerous military installations into the state during World War II, bringing many new jobs to the state.
  3. 4. 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.
  4. 5. A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
  5. 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.
  6. 7. An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
  7. 9. (1884-1946):four time Georgia governor that fought against Roosevelt's New Deal policies
  8. 10. A long period of dry weather
  9. 12. Insect whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States.
  10. 13. A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s