Ch.7 - Great Depression & WWII

What was the time period of the Great Depression through World War II (WWII)?

What did FDR promise people if he was elected president?

This law guaranteed workers the right to join a union.

The Columbia River was the perfect spot to help provide the power for the plutonium plant in ___________.

What was the derogatory term for people from Oklahoma who moved west?

The WPA helped Washington to improve King County ____, build roads in ____, build a fish ____, and public ____ projects.

During the dust bowl time, __________ couldn't grow crops and lost their ________ to __________.

How did Washington state lawmaker Warren G. Magnuson help the state during the Great Depression?

70,000 people instantly died when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?

The Grand Coulee Dam submerged ancient villages, fishing spots, burial grounds, and natural salmon runs of tribes.

Most of the 15,000 employees working at Hanford didn't know what their work was going to be used for.

During WWII, Hitler led a genocide of over 6 million Jewish people known as the Holocaust.

The Grand Coulee Dam project provided how many jobs in Washington?

Women working at the Boeing plant became a symbol of women in the workforce, with a famous poster of _________.

What two planes did Boeing mainly produce for the war?

What is it called when the economy is suffering mass unemployment, low business activity, and weak stock market?

After Germany surrendered Japan would only surrender after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

What did people call the homeless encampments built by people out of scrap metal, lumber, and cardboard?

The federal government law overturned the Dawes Act and encouraged tribal governments and renewed sovereignty.

What does WPA stand for?

Japanese American citizens were forced out of their homes and sent to relocation camps losing their homes and farms.

This UW student refused to comply with the executive order, stating it violated the Constitution and his right.

After Pearl Harbor, FDR passed Executive Order ____ stating all people Japanese descent had to go to relocation camps.

What percentage of Boeing's workforce were women during the war?

Who was president when the stock market crashed and blamed for the Great Depression?

What happened on December 7, 1941 that caused the U.S. to join WWII?

Thousands in the midwest migrated west along Route ________ to California and Route ________ to ____________.

What was the highest unemployment during the Great Depression?

What percentage increase was there of women in the workforce?

During WWII the ____countries were ____, France, U.S. and Soviets against the ____ countries of Germany, Japan, and ____

Who led Germany to try to conquer Europe and other parts of the world and started WWII?

What was the name for the nuclear project to build an atomic bomb?

How many people were forced out of their homes to build the dam?

What event would essentially end the Great Depression?

The New Deal created government paid jobs to put people back to work with so many programs it was called___________.

What years was the Great Depression?

Who became president in 1932?

What happened on October 29th, 1929 that would spark the beginning of the Great Depression?

How many people did Boeing employ during the war?

How many people moved west because of the dust bowl and Great Depression?

In two months, what percentage value did the stock market decrease?

What caused the dust bowl in states in the Great Plains and even in the Pacific Northwest?