Vocabulary for Unit 8 Depression and World Conflict

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Across
  1. 3. 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.
  2. 4. Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The surprise attack devastated the American fleet. America declared war on
  3. 5. A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies and the Central Powers after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
  4. 6. Excessive agricultural production
  5. 7. A telegram written by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann is a coded message sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States.
  6. 10. A series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans and stabilize the economy.
  7. 12. As governor, he reorganized the bureaucracy, promoted economic development in the midst of the Great Depression, and balanced the state budget. He also promoted the development of new forms of energy.
  8. 14. This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
  9. 16. A war between 1939 and 1945 that involved all the world's major countries. It was the most destructive war in history and millions of people were killed. It was fought between the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy) and the Allies (Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union among others).
  10. 17. and entered WW2.
  11. 18. The 32nd president of the United States who helped the US get rebuild from the Depression.
Down
  1. 1. A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. It was caused by manmade and natural factors.
  2. 2. An attorney and American politician who served three terms as the 67th governor of Georgia.
  3. 8. A sharp decline in U.S. stock market values in 1929 that contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
  4. 9. An American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th-century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
  5. 11. A law that allowed the federal government to make low-cost loans to farmers who had banded together to create non-profit cooperatives to bring electricity to rural America
  6. 13. An insect that destroys cotton crops which brought havoc on the Southern economy.
  7. 15. A long period of dry weather without rain