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- 3. two deepwater ports in Georgia where ships were built; both were extremely important to the United States during World War II
- 4. The largest war in history; conflict extended into Europe, Africa, Asia, and both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
- 6. first elected lieutenant governor of Georgia; GA. Supreme Court ruled he would be governor after Talmadge’s death
- 7. Georgia provided more for World War I than any other state; included Fort McPherson, Camp Gordon, Camp Benning, and Camp Stewart
- 9. disenfranchising tactic allowing only whites to vote in primary elections
- 10. Progressive Georgia governor who supported the end of the white primary & ended the poll tax
- 13. Atlanta mayor known as civil right advocate & brought major league sports to Atlanta
- 14. Atlanta mayor known as a civil rights advocate & brought aviation to the city
- 20. a sustained period of American economic decline; lasted from 1929 until the mid-1940s. U.S. entry into World War II led to the end of the Great Depression
- 22. a three-term governor of Georgia who served in the 1930s and 1940s; Georgia governor campaigned to return white primary; his death began the three governor controversy
- 23. known at the time as the Great War, this war was largely fought in Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia; Georgia contributed more than 100,000 men and women to the war effort
- 24. president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945; governed the nation during both the Great Depression and World War II.. After contracting polio in 1921, he returned to the state, this time to visit Warm Springs, where he hoped the waters would restore him to health
- 25. Act allowing the U.S. to send supplies and military equipment to allied countries
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- 1. New Deal program designed to help bring electricity to rural areas
- 2. naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, prompting the United States’ entry into World War II
- 5. former governor of Georgia and U.S. senator. He was known for working to strengthen national defense as well as for opposing civil rights
- 8. felt he had right to be governor in 1946; later became governor in special election of 1948
- 11. series of laws enacted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression, aimed at rebuilding the American economy
- 12. New Deal program that hired young, unemployed, unmarried men to work on public works projects
- 15. B-29 bomber factory in Marietta
- 16. New Deal program that provided retirement and unemployment insurance for taxpayers
- 17. three men had legitimate claim to position as Georgia governor; Three Governor’s Controversy
- 18. New Deal program that paid farmers not to grow crops to increase price of agricultural products
- 19. a period of little or no rainfall; a widespread drought in the United States during the 1930s created the Dust Bowl in parts of the Midwest and West
- 21. a beetle that feeds on flowers and cotton buds; not native to the United States, it proved disastrous to cotton producers in the American Southeast, including those in Georgia, during the Great Depression