1. This is…

2. WW I & the Great
Depression
Jeopardy!

3. WW I & Great Depression Jeopardy!
20’s People
The New Deal
World War I
On the Homefront
After the War
Great Depression
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4. A famous baseball player who was the first to hit 60 homeruns in one season
Who is Babe Ruth?

5. The track star from the U.S. to win 4 Olympic gold medals in 1936
Who is Jesse Owens?

6. A singer and trumpeter that helped make jazz popular in the 20’s
Who is Louie Armstrong?

7. The first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Charles Lindbergh?

8. What is the reason Americans elected Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Roosevelt promised to give the people a “New Deal” by creating programs to help them
What is the reason Americans elected Franklin D. Roosevelt?

9. What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
A program that built dams to control floods and bring electricity to people in the southeastern rural areas
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?

10. What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
A project that involved soil conservation and tree planting that put young men back to work
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?

11. What is the Works Progress Administration?
A New Deal project that gave people jobs building highways, bridges, public buildings, parks and airports
What is the Works Progress Administration?

12. Germany attacked American ships
What is the reason the U.S. entered the war?

13. DAILY DOUBLE!

14. The name of the passenger ship the Germans sunk
What is the Lusitania?

15. Great Britain, France and United States
Who are The Allied Powers?

16. Germany, Austria-Hungry, Italy
Who are the Axis powers?

17. A factory owner who used assembly lines to build cars
Who is Henry Ford?

18. The new workers in factories during World War I?
Who are African Americans and women?

19. 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?

20. DAILY DOUBLE!

21. 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?

22. The Treaty of Versailles
Why did Allied leaders meet in France in 1919?

23. There was a boom in the economy
What happened to the U.S. economy when the war ended?

24. By taking land and money from Germany
What is the way the Allied leaders wanted to punish Germany?

25. The economy grew weak in 1929
What happened to the economy after the Stock Market Crash?

26. There was a bad drought and the soil turned to dust
What made life very hard for farmers in the Great Plains?

27. During the Great Depression the demand for goods was down
What is the reason the supply of goods went down?

28. Stores could not sell their goods and business went down
Why did the supply of goods go down?

29. Many bank customers lost their life savings
What happened to bank customers when the banks closed?

30. Final Jeopardy Category
Great Depression

31. Dust Bowl

32. Final Jeopardy Response
What was the name of the drought in the Great Plains?

33. Thank you for playing!