Across
- 6. considered the "largest seaborne invasion in history"
- 8. the mass murder of 6 million Jews led by Adolf Hitler
- 10. one of the bloodiest battles in history and one of the final battles fought in Europe
- 14. act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war
- 16. used to defeat Japan and end the war when dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 18. was established in 1933 to build dams and power plants along the Tennessee River
- 22. a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth
- 24. hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base
Down
- 1. U.S could lend military equipment and supplies to any nation the President said was vital to the defense of the U.S
- 2. a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
- 3. she fought for women rights and minority rights
- 4. Governor of Louisiana in 1928 who launched an unprecedented program to build the state’s infrastructure and provide education and economic opportunity to the masses
- 5. turning point of WW2
- 7. act giving power power to fight for better wages and working conditions
- 9. founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- 11. a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court
- 12. located in New Mexico where they built the atomic bombs
- 13. act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws
- 15. a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during WW2
- 17. programs Roosevelt instituted to help fix the economy after the first New Deal failed
- 19. a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s
- 20. was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s
- 21. act of detaining a person or a group of people, especially a group perceived to be a threat during wartime
- 23. is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand