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Why was Franklin Roosevelt popular with Georgia’s citizens?  Select the BEST answer.  

• he helped farmers with the Agricultural Adjustment Act
• The Little White House was the first house with electricity.
• Roosevelt liked Georgia and helped it due to his visits to the Little White House at Warm Springs
• His New Deal programs put many Georgians to work, and helped many people during the Great Depression.

Which statement BEST describes the involvement of the United States in World War II before the bombing of Pearl Harbor? 

•  The United States maintained strict neutrality with no favoritism.
•  The United States provided advisory troops to aid Great Britain
•  The United States provided lend-lease aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
•  The United States secretly sank German submarines.

Why was the bombing of Pearl Harbor a significant event during World War II?

•  It was the first use of nuclear weapons in war.
•  It put an end to the lend lease program.
•  It prevented Japan from invading the United States.
•  It caused the United States to get involved in the war.

What was the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act that was passed in March of 1941?

• It was part of the New Deal

• It was to help American farmers get new farming equipment.

• It put American factors back to work.

• It allowed the United States to sell, lend, or give ships, planes, tanks, or other equipment to the Allies.

Savannah and Brunswick were important to Georgia’s efforts in World War II in which way?

•  Those are the two places where most of Georgia’s infantry were trained.
•  Franklin Roosevelt used those locations as his primary headquarters in Georgia.
•  A large number of military ships and sea vessels were built in the shipyards in these cities.
•  These were the two cities selected to build Bell Aircrafts.

Who first called Atlanta the "city too busy to hate"?

• Eugene Talmadge
• Ivan Allen
• Ellis Arnall
• William Hartsfield

What was the primary impact of the modernization of agriculture after 1945?

• Better farm machinery caused people from cities to move to rural areas so they could farm.
• . Fewer farm laborers were needed, so many people migrated to the cities.
• Although farm machinery improved, the demand for farm labor remained the same.

How did Georgia’s military bases help during World War II?       

• they gave jobs to the people of Georgia, which helped its economy
• they trained soldiers to fight in the war
• they housed prisoners of war
• all of the above are correct

What was built at the Brunswick and Savannah shipyards?         

• Cargo ships for the military
• cruise ships for the military
• Air Force bases
• bombers

Why is Atlanta's longest serving mayor, William Berry Hartsfield, known as Atlanta's "father of aviation"?

• He was an accomplished pilot who began Delta airlines.
• He was a colleague of airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.
• He developed the C5 mass transport airplane for Georgia's Lockheed Aeronautical plant.
• He believed that an airport for Atlanta would be a key to the city's economic prosperity.