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| During the great depression,this made farmers unable to repay thier depts for land and machinery. |
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| Allowed investers to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price(10-15)and borrow the rest. |
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| The sever economic decline that lasted from 1929 until the U.S's entry into WW11 in 1941 |
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| what religious movement accurred in the 1730s and 1740s in the colonies? |
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| what french philosopher came up with idea of a three-branch government? |
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| What was the first meetingcalled when 12 colonies sent delegates to philadelphia to discuss british tyranny(and take action)? |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| What group sent the Clive Branch Petiton and wrote the Declaration of independence? |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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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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| Tennesse Valley Authority(TVA) |
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| This program put over 2.5 million unmarried men to work. |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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| This program gave jobs bulidings or improving roads,parks,airports,and other facilities to the unemployed |
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| Civil Works Administration |
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| This program provided old-age pensions,disability payments and unemployment benefits |
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| FDR created this in responce to critics who said he was not doing enough for ordinary Americans. |
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| Name the Axis Powers in WW11. |
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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 creatingWW11. |
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| A German tactic in which tanks,soldiers,and moving trucks rapidly attack and are there before the foe has time to react. |
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| This coutry began to expand in the Pacific,controlling most of China by 1940. |
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| On Dec.7,1941 the Japanese attacked... |
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| Women participated in the military during the war by belonging to which organization? |
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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 USSR during the war. |
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| Leader of Germany thewar. |
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| Leader of Great Britain during the war. |
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| Leader of Italy during the war. |
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| After the battle,Japan was unable to launch any more offensive operations in the Pacific. |
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| Top secret project to create the atomic bomb. |
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| U.S military leader in Europe. |
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| U.S leader in the pacific. |
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| Places where prisoners of war and political prisoners areconfined,usually under harsh conditions. |
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| Where did the U.S drop the bomb? |
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