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