WWI and WWII Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 to 1971.
  2. 8. U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces during WWII.
  3. 10. a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
  4. 11. name of the officer that issued a telegram that was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
  5. 13. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
  6. 14. was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States
  7. 15. the goal was to bring electricity to America's rural areas.
Down
  1. 1. A main cause of the Great Depression, Factories and farms were producing more goods than the people could afford to buy.
  2. 2. a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat
  3. 4. was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
  4. 5. gave President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality.
  5. 6. was 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.
  6. 7. was an American political term used in the mid- and late-20th century to describe conservative Southern Democrats.
  7. 9. was an American politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937
  8. 12. what the stock market did in the 1930's