Great Depression

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of England during WWII

Allied Powers

USA, United Kingdom, Soviet Union

Spanish Civil War

Factions were Communists and Fascists

Black Tuesday

Date in 1929 considered the start of the Great Depression

Great Depression Public Works

The Hoover Dam, Mount Rushmore, Tennessee Valley Authority

Herbert Hoover

President often blamed for the Great Depression

Japan's Expansion

Started by invading China

Scopes v Tennessee

Trial debating Evolution in public schools in the 1920s

Warren G Harding

President known for White House drinking parties during Prohibition

Calvin Coolidge

President associated with the economic prosperity of the "Roaring 20's"

Franklin D

President who initiated Social Security, Tennessee Valley Authority, Public Works Administration

Joseph Stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

Adolf Hitler

Leader of Germany during WWII

Benito Mussolini

Dictator of Italy during WWII

Emperor Hirohito

Leader of Japan during WWII

WWII End

Event that finally ended the Great Depression

Pearl Harbor

Date of the attack was December 7, 1941

Hitler's Invasion

Started WWII by invading Poland in 1939

Stalingrad

Battle marking the turning point in the Eastern European front during WWII

Midway

Pacific battle that was the turning point against Japan, sinking 4 Japanese aircraft carriers

Holocaust Victims

6 million Jews killed by the Nazis

Dustbowl

Environmental disaster caused by drought and over-farming in the Great Plains

FDR's Disease

Polio kept him in a wheelchair during his presidency

The New Deal

FDR's economic plan to address the Great Depression

New Deal Programs

Social Security, FDIC, Securities and Exchange Commission

Great Depression Causes

High consumer debt, overproduction, protectionist tariffs, international economic failures, investing on margin

Teapot Dome Scandal

Scandal during the Harding administration involving Navy oil reserves

Atomic Bombs

Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII

Manhattan Project

Secret project led by J. Robert Oppenheimer to develop the atomic bomb

First Atomic Bomb

Detonated in Los Alamos, New Mexico