Unit 8

5. a factor that led to the Great Depression; farmers continued to produce record numbers of crop yield though the demand for agricultural products was limited
7. The most destructive war in human history; America entered the war in 1941.
11. American Naval base in Hawaii was hit with a surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941, which resulted in the U.S. entering World War II.
13. a New Deal program that paid farmers a stipend not to grow crops in order to increase the price of agricultural products.
14. Georgia city that was home to the “Little White House;” site’s warm water mineral springs were used as a rehabilitation center for polio victims.
15. the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death at Warm Springs, Georgia in 1945 who is credited with pulling America out of the Great Depression with his New Deal policies.

1. Georgia’s two deepwater ports; during World War II, 187 Liberty Ships were constructed there.
2. a New Deal program that hired unemployed young men to work on public works projects.
3. U.S. cargo ships made during World War II. In all 187 of these ships were made in the ports of Georgia.
4. insect whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States
6. the name given to a series of federal programs spearheaded by President Franklin Roosevelt in order to help the nation recover from the Great Depression.
8. the New Deal program designed to build the capabilities to bring electricity to rural areas.
9. New Deal program that provided retirement and unemployment insurance for American taxpayers.
10. The worldwide economic crisis and period of low business activity beginning with the stock-market crash in October 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
12. one of the factors that led to the Great Depression; when a bank ran out of reserves to pay customers who wanted to withdraw their deposits.