the Great Depression, the new deal, and wwII

Buying stocks on _____________ with borrowed money led to inflated stock prices.

margin

The _____________ System failed to prevent collapse of the banking system

federal reserve

The protective _____________ Tariff led to retaliatory tariffs in other countries

Hawley smoot

Overproduction in agriculture and a drought led to the _____________ in the plains

dust bowl

The Depression began with the ______________________ crash on October 29, 1929.

stock market

High _____________ and homelessness spread

unemployment

FDR's plan: _____________ made government more active in solving problems.

new deal

_____________ said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Franklin roosevelt

The _________ and other relief programs gave jobs

WPA

The __________ and recovery programs helped agriculture

AAA

The __________ and reform measures corrected unsound banking

FDIC

The _____________ Act offered safeguards for workers and retirement

social security

World War II began with Hitler's invasion of _____________ in 1939

poland

The U.S. remained officially _____________ during the first two years

netural

Germany pounded England from the air in the ____________________

battle of britian

In 1941, Hitler turned on his former ally, _____________ and invaded Soviet Union.

josef stalin

The U.S. gave Britain war supplies in return for military bases with the _____________

lend-lease act

During the 1930's, Japan invaded and brutalized _____________ in China

manchuria

Japan attacked the American naval base at _____________ on December 7, 1941.

pearl harbor

FDR calls it, "A date which will live in _____________ ."

infamy

An _____________ strategy was to seize islands closer and closer to Japan

island hopping

In the Battle of _____________ the US defeated a much larger Japanese navy.

midway

US invasions of _____________ where Marines raised the flag & _______________

close to Japan cost thousands of American lives

Iwo Jima; Okinawa

Finally, President _____________ authorized the use of an atomic bomb

Harry Truman

The US dropped 2 atomic bombs on ____________________ & __________________

Hiroshima; Nagasaki