Unit 10 Review

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Across
  1. 5. Movement of African American from the rural south into Northern and Western cities.
  2. 6. Short-term loans that individual citizens made to the government that financed two-thirds of the war's cost.
  3. 7. Environmental disaster that caused massive storms and made the nationwide Great Depression harder to recover from.
  4. 9. Farmers in Georgia could not grow any crops due to this environmental disaster. It led to an early depression in Georgia.
  5. 10. A factor that led to the Great Depression; economic fears caused consumers to stop buying manufactured products, which led to companies losing money and laying off more employees, leading to high unemployment rates.
  6. 12. Major historical period that occured around the world in between World War I and World War II.
  7. 14. Produced Liberty Ships during World War II.
  8. 15. Planes that contributed to the allies win in WWII, produced in Marietta, GA.
  9. 17. Event that changed the opinions of most Americans about remaining neutral during World War I
  10. 20. this term describes GA's economy prior to the Boll Weevil & Droughts of the 1920s. The economy was weak because GA only relied on cotton and nothing else.
  11. 23. Georgia governor that opposed FDR's New Deal programs because they helped African Americans.
  12. 24. Due to this problem, Georgia was forced to diversify their agriculture (growing crops other than cotton, such as peanuts) which helped the economy in the long-term.
  13. 27. Inspired by FDR's visits to Georgia after he witnessed the extreme poverty in rural Georgia and wanted to bring infrastructure to rural parts of the state.
  14. 28. Helped plant millions of trees and helped build state parks that are still in use in Georgia.
  15. 30. President of the US during Great Depression and World War II.
  16. 31. Also produced Liberty Ships during World War II.
  17. 32. Providing more military bases than any other state and growing cotton to produce textiles for uniforms.
  18. 34. Georgia was home to more of these than any other state during World War I
  19. 35. letter intercepted by U.S. that made Americans want to enter WW1 against Germany.
  20. 36. Produced B-29 "Superfortress" bombers for the U.S. war effort.
  21. 37. Plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
  22. 38. Created a tax on workers and employers. That money provided monthly benefit payments to disabled and retired people.
Down
  1. 1. A series of reforms and laws enacted by FDR with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
  2. 2. Event that changed the opinions of most Americans about remaining neutral during World War II.
  3. 3. Helped Georgia's economy by bringing military bases to GA. Nicknamed the "father of the school lunch program"
  4. 4. Backyard gardens; Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort
  5. 6. Location of the "Little White House", where FDR would visit for his polio treatments.
  6. 8. 100,000 Georgians did this during World War I. 3,000 of them died
  7. 10. Made electricity available at low rates to American farm families in areas that private power companies refused to service. (abbreviation)
  8. 11. Practiced by U.S. did not get involved during the early years of World War II because it was unpopular with the American public, who were trying to recover from the Great Depression.
  9. 13. A condition caused by the lack of demand in goods. It causes prices to decrease. Major cause of the Great Depression.
  10. 16. Allowed the president to give aid and weapons to any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security.
  11. 18. Producing Liberty Ships in Savannah & Brunswick & Producing Bombers at the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta
  12. 19. The lasting impact of the Bell Bomber Plant is that this industry continued to grow in Georgia even after World War II.
  13. 21. Law that tried to solve the problem of overprduction of crops during the Great Depression.
  14. 22. Supported expansion of the Navy. Nicknamed the "Father of the two ocean navy".
  15. 25. Largest conflict in human history. Fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies (UK, France, Russia) and the Axis (Germany, Japan).
  16. 26. The New Deal program that attempted to raise the price of crops. (abbreviation)
  17. 29. New Deal program created to help solve problem of unemployment
  18. 33. Built in the ports of Savannah and Brunswick, GA. They helped carry goods and troops during WWII.