1. 5 th Grade Chapter 8 Vocabulary Ms. Thornburg’s Flash Cards!

2. Your Name What do we call a time after WWI when people were eager for a change and wanted to enjoy themselves? Roaring Twenties

3. Your Name What do we call the lowest pay a worker can receive by law? Minimum Wage

4. Your Name What do we call a neighborhood outside the main city? Suburb

5. Your Name What do we call a long period of time when there is little or no rain? Drought

6. Your Name What do we call a long, hard time when people were out of work? Great Depression

7. Your Name What do we call it when more people wanted to sell their shares of stock than buy shares—it caused the…? Stock market crash

8. Your Name What do we call it when a person goes to the store and is able to bring home a purchase and pay for it over time? Installment buying

9. Your Name What do we call Hitler’s mass murder of European Jews and other groups? Holocaust

10. Your Name The Japanese attacked _____ early in the morning on Sunday, December 7, 1941? Pearl Harbor

11. Your Name WWII began in Europe when _____ was invaded by Germany? Poland

12. Your Name Hitler put Jews and other groups of people in _____? Concentration Camps

13. Your Name After the war, many countries turned to a form of government where all property was owned by the government. This form of government was called _____? Communism

14. Your Name The largest water to land invasion ever—when the Allied forces invaded France to free them from Germany was called _____? D-Day

15. Your Name Who was the New Deal president? Franklin Roosevelt

16. Your Name Who was the ruler of Germany? Hitler

17. Your Name Who flew across the Atlantic Ocean? Charles Lindbergh

18. Your Name Who was the president who ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped? Truman

19. Your Name Who was known for the assembly line? Henry Ford

20. Your Name What countries made up the Allied forces? United States Britain Soviet Union

21. Your Name What countries made up the Axis powers? Germany Italy Japan