Chapter 11- New Deal, Great Depression, and WWII Name: ______

Directions: Use the information on pages 383-401 to complete the following statements. (sections 2 and 3)

1. Describe two natural disasters that affected Georgia’s economy in the 1920’s.

  1. ______
  2. ______

2. What was the Great Migration and what economic and social factors led to it?

3. Explain six causes of the Great Depression.

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4. Why did FDR spend so much time in Georgia?

5. What were purposes of the New Deal?

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  2. ______
  3. ______
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6. Why was Roosevelt’s administration referred to as “government by alphabet”?

7. How did the New Deal affect the way Americans viewed government?

8. (True or false) The Great Depression had an impact on most Georgians.

9. President Hoover was the first president to use the power of the ______to help the economy recover. This plan was (circle one) successful/unsuccessful in endingthe Great Depression.

10. Using Figure 39 on page 393, name the New Deal agency that insured home loans for low

income families. ______

minimum wage CCC

rural electrification collective bargaining

______11. Discussions between a union and an employer to determine such things as workingconditions and employees' wages, hours, and benefits

______12. An important New Deal program that resulted in many farmers being able to haveelectricity

______13. The Civilian Conservation Corps, which constructed sewer projects, recreationalfacilities, and municipal facilities throughout Georgia

______14. The least amount an employer can pay an employee for a certain number of hours worked

Richard Russell, Jr. Eurith Rivers

Eugene Talmadge Ellis Arnall

______15. Led Georgia to become the first state in the nation to grant eighteen-year-olds theright to vote

______16. A conservative white supremacist who did not like federal government interventionor government debts; tried to rid Georgia of New Deal programs

______17. Combined many state offices into a few agencies; created the Board of Regents of theUniversity System of Georgia

______18. Supported New Deal programs; obtained federal funds to build public housing

Section 4 - Directions: Use the information on pages 402-415 to complete the following statements.

1. In the late 1930s, the United States tried to maintain a policy of

______(not taking part in the affairs of other nations).

2. The policy of giving an aggressor what it wants in orderto avoid war was used by Great Britain and France towards Germany in 1938 and was called ______.

3. The countries that led the Allied Powers in World War II were ______,

______, and ______.

4. The countries that led the Axis Powers in World War II were ______,

______, and ______.

5. Name the minority groups contributed tothe United States' military effort in World War II. ______

6. When was Europe freed from Hitler's control? ______

7. What happened on April 24, 1945? ______

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8. The United States' bombings of ______and ______in

Japan were the first and last times that ______warfare has been used to settledifferences between nations.

9. What is name given to the systematic extermination of 6million Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II is the ______

10. How did Georgians support the war effort?______

11. Many Georgia military bases during World War II were also ______for

German, Austrian, and Italian soldiers captured during the war.

12. List a few of the many bases that were created in GA during WWII. ______

13. List three ways that life in the United States changed when the United States declared war on

Japan and joined the Allies.

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