Vocabulary Word Puzzle
Across
- 1. An aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II
- 3. A US naval base that was surprise attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
- 5. An economic depression that took place in the 1930s that started in the United States
- 8. President of the US in 1932, introduced a plan called the "New Deal" to get the country out of the Great Depression
- 10. Began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand until 1918, the Central Powers fought against the Allied Powers. 16 million people died.
- 12. Served as the governor of Georgia and opposed many of the New Deal programs
- 13. October 29, 1929, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression
- 15. An act that provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States
- 17. a major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929 and sparked the Great Depression
- 18. An act that established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped
Down
- 2. A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
- 4. A time period where there is little rainfall and a shortage in the water supply
- 6. A beetle that eats cotton and other crops
- 7. A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936
- 9. Served as the Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 and the Us Senate from 1933 to 1971
- 11. A United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses
- 14. was an American program to defeat Germany, Japan, and Italy by distributing food, oil, and material between 1941 and August 1945
- 16. The third US Navy's Nimitz-class supercarrier