1. WW1, GREAT DEPRESSION, WW2 STUDY POWERPOINT
By Rohan Patwardhan

2. Who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Emperor Hirohito, Emperor of Japan

3. What is Black Tuesday, and what was the date?
The day the stock market crashed: October 29, 1929

4. Who was the dictator of the USSR?
Josef Stalin

5. Why did the Soviet Union drop out of WW1?
Communist Revolution

6. What were women with new styles called during the 1920s called?
Flappers

7. What did the CCC stand for and what did it do?
Put young men to work by building forest trails, control flooding, and building parks.

8. What were Japanese suicide pilots called?
Kamikaze pilots

9. What did the Social Security Act do?
It provided government pensions to older citiznes.

10. What were victory gardens?
They were small family gardens to make sure soldiers would have enough food

11. What company made B-29 bombers?
Bell Aircraft Company in Marietta.

12. What were Liberty Ships?
They were large supply ships that carried much needed material from the ports of Savannah and Brunswick to Europe.

13. What was the largest infantry training base in the world?
Fort Benning

14. What was the law that helped returning soldiers adapt to civilian life?
G.I. Bill

15. What is a ration?
A fixed amount of food

16. When was the armistice for WW1 signed?
November 11, 1918 at 11 A.M. Paris Time

17. Where were the 2 atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

18. What did the G.I. in the G.I. Bill stand for?
Government Issue

19. When was the bomb on Hiroshima deployed?
8/6/1945

20. What was the mass murder of Jews known as?
Holocaust

21. What is a blitzkrieg?
Lightning Speed

22. Where did FDR visit to get his inspiration for the Rural Electrification Act?
Warm Springs, GA

23. What two things caused the depression in GA?
Boll weevil and the drought

24. What is isolationism? Name 1 example during WW1 and WW2?
Policy of not getting involved with other countries’ affairs/decisions.
Ex. The U.S.A.

25. Who was the first African American pilot in history who fought with France?
Eugene Jacques Bullard

26. Who traveled from NY to Paris for 36 hours nonstop?
Charles Lindberg