1. 5 th Grade Social Studies Ch. 8 Vocabulary Ms. Thornburg’s Flash Cards!

2. Your Name Henry Ford found that he could produce cars less expensively by doing what? Using a moving assembly line.

3. Your Name Which were popular activities in the 1920s? Listening to sports and jazz on the radio; playing golf and tennis; attending baseball, football, and basketball games.

4. Your Name Why did the stock market crash of 1929 occur? More people wanted to sell stock than buy stock.

5. Your Name How did the New Deal affect the federal government? The federal government got more authority and more workers.

6. Your Name World War II began in Europe when….? Germany invaded Poland.

7. Your Name The United States entered World War II the day after…? The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

8. Your Name How did the United States government make sure there were enough supplies to send to soldiers overseas? By rationing.

9. Your Name Who did the United States government set up relocation camps for during World War II? Japanese Americans.

10. Your Name What was the Holocaust? Hitler’s mass murder of European Jews and other groups.

11. Your Name Why did Americans in the 1920s like installment buying? They could enjoy the product before they had fully paid for it.

12. Your Name Which industry did not grow in the 1920s? Computer software.

13. Your Name Identify the two sides that fought each other in World War II. Axis Powers and Allied Powers.

14. Your Name List the countries that first made up the Axis Powers. Germany Italy Japan

15. Your Name List the countries that first made up the Allied Powers. United States Britain Soviet Union

16. Your Name Name three new technologies that were used for the first time in World War II. Penicillin Radar Atomic Bomb

17. Your Name Why did Japan surrender to the United States? Too many people were killed by bombs.

18. Your Name How did the United States help fight communism during the Cold War? Using propaganda and media.

19. Your Name What date was D Day? 1944

20. Your Name What date was the Stock market crash? 1929

21. Your Name What date was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? 1941

22. Your Name What date was the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 1945