The Great Depression & WWII
Across
- 6. Which US president ordered the first atomic bomb to be dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima?
- 8. Which US president died in office during World War II?
- 12. Who was the US president during the beginning of the Great Depression?
- 17. Which agency put Americans to work building roads, airports, and bridges, as well as painting murals, during the Great Depression?
- 20. What was the Pacific Island where the Japanese put up a fierce battle but eventually lost to US Marines?
- 23. What was the largest sea invasion in history that ultimately pushed the Germans out of France known as?
- 25. Who was the dictator of Italy and an ally of Hitler during World War II?
- 26. What was the name of the city where the first atomic bomb was dropped?
- 27. Which New Deal program was created to build dams and electric power stations in the Tennessee River Valley?
- 28. What was the day that the Japanese finally surrendered known as?
- 29. What was President Roosevelt’s plan to help pull America out of the Great Depression called?
Down
- 1. Which New Deal program gave jobs building roads, planting forests, and working on national parks projects to young men?
- 2. What was the effect of severe drought, strong prairie winds, and dust on the Great Plains?
- 3. Which famous African American pilots protected bomber planes during World War II?
- 4. Who was the leader of Japan during World War II?
- 5. Who was the dictator of Germany who was responsible for starting World War II and the Holocaust?
- 7. Which African American athlete won 4 gold medals at the1936 Olympics?
- 9. Who was a famous pianist, composer, and band leader during the “Swing Era”?
- 10. What was the murder of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis called?
- 11. Which US president pushed for New Deal laws to help America out of the Great Depression?
- 13. When the government put limits on buying goods.
- 14. What occurred when the price of stocks rapidly decreased, causing people to panic and sell their stocks?
- 15. What is the day that Americans and Europeans celebrated Germany’s surrender known as?
- 16. What was the name of the city where the second atomic bomb was dropped? This was the reason Japan surrendered.
- 18. Japan attacked which naval base on December 7, 1941, which led the US to join World War II?
- 19. What charity provided food to the needy during the Great Depression?
- 21. Who wrote Gone with the Wind, a book about the South during the Civil War?
- 22. What was the symbol that represented women going to work in factories while the men were away at war?
- 24. What international organization was created after World War II to keep world peace (Eleanor Roosevelt helped start this)?