Study ppt. WWI/WWII/Great Depression

1.Who was rejected when he tried to join the U.S. air force?

Eugene Bullard

2.Where Did Eugene Bullard hitch- hiked to?

He hitch-hiked France, so he could get to Scotland.

3.Why did Eugene want to move to Scotland?

He was rejected in the American air force and he was told that in Scotland, all races are treated as equal, and as he wanted to pursue his dream of going into the air force he went to where he had a chance.

4.What type of music was popular during the roaring 20s Jazz!!!!!!!

5.Who was the president during WWI?

Woodrow Wilson

6.Why did farmers prosper in the south during the great depression (2 reasons)

Boll Weevils Drought

7.Who was the president during WWII

Franklin D. Roosevelt

8.What was the mass destruction of many people via concentration camps in Germany called?

The holocaust

9.Who were the people who worked in the military under Hitler’s rule?

Nazis

10.Who did the rural electrification act effect

Farmers

11.What was the number 1 crop destroyed in the great depression

cotton

12.Who was the main target in the Holocaust?

Jews

13. What were the three Rs?

Relief, Reform, Recovery

14. What was formed to carry out the three Rs?

The New Deal program

15. Where did Japan bomb the U.S.?

Pearl Harbor

16. Where did the U.S. bomb Japan? (two places)

Nagasaki and Hiroshima

17. Why did the U.S. go into WWI (2 reasons)

The Zimmerman telegraph and The sinking of the Lusitania

18. What were the boats called that sunk the Lusitania?

U-Boats

19. What country where U-boats from?

Germany

20. What were the two sides of WWII called?

Allied and Axis powers

21. During WWII who was the leader of Germany?

Adolf Hitler

22. What is Genocide?

The mass destruction of a certain group of people.

23. Who was the leader of Japan during WWII?

Emperor Hirohito

24. What country switched sides in the middle of WWII?

Russia

25. Why was Germany very angry after the war?

They had to pay for all of the desruction.