Unit 9 Vocabulary - GA WWI and Great Depression

(1914-1918) major war primarily between European powers; U.S. entered the war in 1917.

• Civil War

• WWI

• WWII

• Spanish American War

The telegraph sent from Germany to Mexico offering the country the opportunity for an alliance. Germany urged Mexico to attack the United States in return for territory lost during the Mexican-American War.

• Washington Telegram

• Zimmerman Telegraph

British passenger ship that was sunk by the Germans in 1915. Over 100 Americans were killed; the sinking of this ship contributed to America entering World War I.

• Lusitania

• Titanic

• Holland American Cruise Ship

The debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war.

• War Loans

• War Donations

• War Bonds

The vegetables, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I

• Food Processing Gardens

• Victory Gardens

• War Gardens

It was a factor that led to the Great Depression; farmers continued to produce record numbers of crop yield though the demand for agricultural products was limited; this drove the cost of these products down.

• Drought

• Boll Weevil

• Overproduction

It was one of the worst droughts in Georgia’s history; led to a depression in the state that predated the Great Depression.

• Drought of 1980

• Drought of 1945

• Drought of 1924

It was an insect whose larvae feed on cotton crops; decimated cotton production in the southeastern United States.

• Beetle

• Fireants

• Boll Weevil

He was four time Georgia governor that fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.

• Herbert Hoover

• FDR

• Eugene Talmadge

The name given to a series of federal programs spearheaded by President Franklin Roosevelt in order to help the nation recover from the Great Depression.

• The New Deal

• Social Security

• Agricultural Adjustment