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- 2. A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
- 3. A beetle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Thought to be native to Central Mexico, it migrated into the United States from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all U.S. cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry and the people working in the American South.
- 6. An American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic Party and represented Georgia in the House from 1914 to 1965.
- 9. A sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.
- 13. An American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
- 15. Lasted from 1914 until 1918, introduced the world to the horrors of trench warfare and lethal new technologies such as poison gas and tanks. The event that sparked the conflagration was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in 1914
- 17. A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
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- 1. enacted on May 20, 1936, provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States.
- 4. A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
- 5. Produce too much, price goes down, farmers produce more to try to maintain their income.
- 7. This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
- 8. A founder and leader of the conservative coalition that dominated Congress from 1937 to 1963, and at his death was the most senior member of the Senate. He was for decades a leader of Southern opposition to the civil rights movement.
- 10. A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President FranklinDRoosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
- 11. A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
- 12. An attorney and American politician who served three terms as the 67th governor of Georgia, from 1933 to 1937, and then again from 1941 to 1943.
- 14. A British ocean liner that was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and that held the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
- 16. Began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3. The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.