Great Depression, World War 1, in World War II

What was womans suffrage?

Women could vote and run for public office

What were the causes of World War l?

The assassination of Archduke, Ferdinand

What were Georgia’s contributions to World War I?

Victory Gardens

Conserving steel

Meatless nights

Gasless sundaes

Canned food

Liberty bonds

People bought war bonds

In military training camps

What events brought the United States into World War |?

The Zimmerman telegraph and the Lusitania sinking

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

Banks failing

Buying too much on credit cards

Stock market crash

Overproduction

Droughts

People borrowed more money than they could afford to pay back to the bank

Hi tariffs

Black Tuesday

And unemployment

Define laissez-faire

The approach that if the government and people do nothing, everything will get better

What caused Georgia to enter the Great Depression

The bull weevil infestation

And the drought of 1924

And the banks failing

What was the purpose of the new deal?

It was created by Franklin D Roosevelt it included the three hours, relief, recovery, and reform, to help the US get out of the depression. This attempt did not work.

what was Franklin D Roosevelt’s connection to Georgia

Franklin D Roosevelt would come to Georgia and soak in the warm springs to give him temporary relief of his polio

What was the purpose of the agricultural adjustment administration (AAA)?

It was created to stabilize crop prices

Give the government money grants to pay the farmers with an exchange for the farmers letting their fields go unplanted

The AAA hurt tenant farmers because if there’s no crops, there’s no work for the tenant farmers which means no income

What was the purpose of the rural electrification administration (REA)?

The goal here was to bring affordable electricity to George’s rural areas

What was the purpose of the civilian conservation corpse (CCC)?

This was the most popular new deal program

It gave jobs to young single men 18 through 25

It focused on conservations development projects, for example, building trails in roads in parks, reforesting, deserted area areas, etc.

What was the purpose of the federal depository insurance corporation (FDIC)?

It was a US government agency

It established by banking active 1933

And it was created to restore trust in the baking system during the great depression

What was the purpose of the Social Security administration (SSA)?

It was created in 1935 as a system of retirement and unemployment insurance or payments

It was designed to relieve the Selfridge of unemployment and poor people

It was originally most women and minorities were excluded from it’s benefit benefits

Today it serves as a social insurance assistance program for retirement, disability, survivorship, death, and social welfare problems

Who were the victims of the holocaust?

Jews, gypsies, gay people, political prisoners, and people with disabilities

What was the purpose of the lend-lease Act?

The Allied powers had ran of cash, so the US provided US military aid to Great Britain the Soviet Union China and France, along with the other allied nations during World War II without immediately getting involved in the war

What was the significance of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

It got the US to join World War II

It killed most of the population that was on Pearl Harbor

It took out most of the military base

WW1 allies

The British France, Russia, Italy and the US

WW1 central powers

Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Ottoman empire

WW2 allies

UK, US, Soviet Union, and China

WW2 axis

Germany, Italy, Japan

What was George’s contributions to World War II?

Military base is being built

Ship building in Savannah

Textile Mills

Citizens joining the military

B 29 bombers being built in Marietta

And shipyards employed people

Who was Richard Russell Junior?

Democratic Democratic politician from Georgia

Served as governor

He was in the US Senate for 40 years

Did not like the idea of blacks having right

White supremacist

Who was Carl Vinson?

Served 25 consecutive two year terms representing Georgia in the US House of Representatives

Influence legislation for a strong national defense

Helped promote our countries, military readiness, which resulted in 10,000 planes built, and 20 new basis

Helped loosen the labor restriction, which foster the ship product

Received the presidential medal of freedom in 1964, and has an aircraft carrier named after him

Who was Eugene Talmadge?

He became the governor in 1933, he was popular with farmers, and served two terms

He was a white supremacist

He rejected many of the new deal programs, he used the funding for Rhodes, rather than unemployment

He did not like federal government interventions in state affairs

He opposed government debt

He reduced property taxes, utility rates, and some license fees

Who were the Tuskegee airmen?

They were the first black military pilots in the US Army

What was the name of the invasion of Europe (D-Day)?

Operation overlord

Where were the atomic bombings?

Hiroshima, and Nagasaki