1. WW1, Great Depression, and WW2 study guide
By: Manmeet Gill

2. What were Victory Gardens?
Small family gardens to make sure soldiers would have enough to eat.

3. In what city was the Bell Bomber Plant located in and what type of airplanes were built there?
They were located in Marietta, GA, and the airplanes were B-29.

4. What was the lend lease act?
It was a way to lend or lease weapons to Great Britain and the Soviet Union without actually joining the war.

5. What event was known as the “A day that will live in infamy?”
The bombing of Pearl Harbor.

6. Where did Roosevelt die on April 24, 1945?
Warm Springs, Georgia

7. Who became president after Roosevelt’s death?
President Harry S. Truman

8. What is isolationism?
The policy of not taking part in the affairs of other nations.

9. What did congress do in order to maintain its policies of isolationism?
Congress passed neutrality acts.

10. What is the Holocaust?
The name given to the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews and other “undesirable people.”

11. What was the Boll Weevil?
A small, grayish, long snouted beetle that attacked the cotton plant.

12. What was downsizing?
It was when businesses had to lay-off workers and banks collapsed due to loss of money.

13. Who were the flappers?
It was the name given to women who took on the new fashion – known for short hair, makeup, dancing, and drinking.

14. Who became the first woman in the U.S. senate?
Rebecca Latimer Felton

15. When did the stock market crash and what was this day called?
The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929 and this day became known as Black Tuesday.

16. What were Speakeasies?
Clubs known for having liquor (which was illegal).

17. Which dance was popular during the roaring 20’s?
The Charleston

18. Name the two famous Gangsters from New York and Chicago.
Baby face Nelson
Al Capon

19. Who was known as “Public enemy #1”
Al Capon from Chicago

20. What was another name for the dust bowl?
The dirty thirties

21. What started WW1?
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife.

22. What ship was sunk by German Submarines?
The Lusitania

23. What was the Zimmerman Telegram
Telegram sent by Arthur Zimmerman to Mexico and asking them to fight the U.S. to regain there southwestern territory from America.

24. What were textile mills?
A factory for making woven materials.

25. Which camp was known as one of the largest Army Post in the U.S.?
Camp Benning

26. Which fort was also used to imprison prisoners?
Camp Mcpherson