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| During the Great Depression, this made farmers unable to repay their debts for land and machinery. |
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| Allowed investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price (10-15%) and borrow the rest. |
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| The severe economic decline that lasted from 1929 until the U.S.'S entry into WWII in 1941. |
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| Houses made out of cardboard paper or scrap metal? |
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| A region in the Great Plains where drought and dust storms took place for much of the 1930s. |
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| During his first 100 days Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed this program. |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| This New Deal program insured bank deposits up to $5,000. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| This public works project was created in 1933 to help farmers and create jobs and hydroelectric power. |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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| This program put over 2.5 million unmarried men to work. |
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| Civil Works Administration |
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| This program gave jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities to the unemployed. |
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| This program provided- old age pensions, disability payments and unemployed benifits. |
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| FDR created this in response to critics who said he was not doing enough for ordinary Americans. |
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| Name the Axis Powers in WWII |
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| U.S., Britain, France, USSR |
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| Giving in to someone's demands in order to keep peace. |
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| Conference in which Britain and France agreed to let Hitler have the Sudetenland. |
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| On Sept.1,1939, Hitler invaded this country creating WWII. |
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| A German tactic in which tanks, soldiers, and moving truucks rapidly attack and are there before the foe has time to react. |
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| This country began to expand in the Pacific, controlling most of China by 1940. |
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| On. Dec.7,1942, which military base did the Japanese attack? |
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| Women participated in the military during the war by belonging to which organizations? |
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| This battle was the turning point of the war in the east. |
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| Leader of the U.S. during the war. |
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| Leader of the USSR during the war. |
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| Leader of Germany during the war. |
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| Leader of Great Britaing during the war. |
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| Leader of Italy during the war. |
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