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- 2. A series of ________ and unsustainable farming methods during the Great Depression caused deadly dust storms, starvation, infections, and dust-related mortality. The largest migration in American history resulted from this.
- 4. A tiny weevil that consumes the cotton boll's fibers, making it a ma is a significant pest of the cotton crop in America.
- 5. a huge loss of paper wealth due to a rapid, abrupt decrease in stock prices throughout a large segment of the stock market
- 9. A mechanism that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "essential to the defense of the United States."
- 12. Federal loans were made available for the development of electrical distribution systems to serve remote rural areas of the United States under a law passed on May 20, 1936.
- 16. On December 7, 1941, just before 8:00 a.m., the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service launched a surprise military attack against the United States against the naval facility at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.
- 17. A lawyer and politician from the United States who held the office of 67th governor of Georgia for three terms, from 1933 to 1937 and then from 1941 to 1943.
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- 1. A politician and lawyer from the United States who presided over the country as its 32nd president from 1933 until his passing in 1945.
- 3. A 1906-first-launched British passenger ship that belonged to Cunard Line. It was opulent and renowned for its speed when it was built for the transatlantic passenger traffic. It was sunk by a German torpedo during World War I, which caused a significant number of casualties.
- 6. A Democrat who was the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933. From 1933 to 1971, he spent nearly 40 years in the United States Senate.
- 7. A collection of policies, initiatives, financial reforms, and regulations that President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
- 8. A covert diplomatic telegram from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 suggested a military alliance between Mexico and Germany.
- 10. A world war that raged from 1939 and 1945. The vast majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, participated in combat as members of the Allies and the Axis, two opposing military coalitions.
- 11. A time in the 1930s when there were many severe dust storms that seriously hurt the prairies' agriculture and ecosystem.
- 13. It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers, and it was one of the deadliest worldwide conflicts in history. Violence broke out in several countries of Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
- 14. An American politician who spent more than 50 years in the House of Representatives and had a significant impact on the Navy's growth in the 20th century.
- 15. Production that is overly abundant across numerous businesses.