Unit 8 History Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.
  2. 3. grayish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton
  3. 6. Elected governor 4 times (but died before he took office for his 4th term). Did not support the New Deal. Scandal during 3rd term will cause UGA to lose its accreditation. Supported white supremacy and gained most of his votes from rural farmers.
  4. 7. 1915 German submarine sank the british liner the Lusitania, which germans believed was carrying contraband goods more than 100 americans died in attack
  5. 11. A war between the Allies and Central powers, it was mainly fought in europe.
  6. 13. Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack devastated the American fleet. America declared war on
  7. 16. The administration that provided electricity for rural America; utility co-ops
Down
  1. 1. A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
  2. 2. A long period of dry weather
  3. 4. Served in the US House of Representatives for 50 years. (longer than any other congressman in US history). "Father of the two ocean navy".
  4. 5. Roosevelt, the President of the United States during the Depression and WWII. He instituted the New Deal. Served from 1933 to 1945, he was the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms
  5. 8. Another leading component to the start of the Great Depression. The stock became very popular in the 1920's, then in 1929 in took a steep downturn and many lost their money and hope they had put in to the stock.
  6. 9. A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
  7. 10. This war was basically as a result of Germany's dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles.
  8. 12. A condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them
  9. 14. allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
  10. 15. GA Governor and U.S. Senator (seven consecutive terms). chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee-helped to bring military bases to GA. "father of the school lunch program"