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World War I

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Who is Babe Ruth?

A famous baseball player who was the first to hit 60 homeruns in

one season

The track star from the U.S. to win 4 Olympic gold medals in 1936

Who is Jesse Owens?

A singer and trumpeter that helped make jazz popular in the 20’s

Who is Louie

Armstrong?

The first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean

Who is Charles

Lindbergh?

Roosevelt promised to give the people a “New Deal” by creating

programs to help them

What is the reason

Americans elected Franklin

D. Roosevelt?

A program that built dams to control floods and bring electricity to

people in the southeastern rural areas

What is the Tennessee

Valley Authority?

A project that involved soil conservation and tree planting that

put young men back to work

What is the Civilian

Conservation Corps?

A New Deal project that gave people jobs building highways, bridges,

public buildings, parks and airports

What is the Works Progress

Administration?

Germany attacked American ships

What is the reason the U.S.

entered the war?

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The name of the passenger ship the Germans sunk

What is the

Lusitania?

Great Britain, France and United States

Who are The Allied Powers?

Germany, Austria-Hungry, Italy

Who are the Axis

powers?

A factory owner who used assembly lines to build cars

Who is Henry Ford?

The new workers in factories during World War I?

Who are African

Americans and women?

The senate worried the U.S. might be pulled into more wars

What is the reason the U.S. did not join the League of Nations?

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By setting limits called rations on goods the civilians could use

What is the way the U.S.

government created more supplies for

soldiers during the war?

The Treaty of Versailles

Why did Allied leaders

meet in France in

1919?

What happened to

the U.S. economy when the war ended?

There was a boom in the economy

By taking land and money from Germany

What is the way the Allied

leaders wanted to punish

Germany?

The economy grew weak in 1929

What happened to the economy

after the Stock Market Crash?

There was a bad drought and the soil turned to dust

What made life very hard for farmers in the Great Plains?

During the Great Depression the demand for goods was down

What is the reason the supply of

goods went down?

Stores could not sell their goods and business went down

Why did the supply of goods go down?

Many bank customers lost their life savings

What happened to bank

customers when the banks closed?

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What was the name of the What was the name of the drought in the Great Plains?drought in the Great Plains?

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