Plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.

Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress.

A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s.

32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII.

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

Wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962).

The three goals of FDR's New Deal..

An agency created in 1933 to insure individuals' bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures.

Hires unemployed people to build public buildings and parks.

A second wave of programs aimed at economic recovery by social reform.

(FDR) 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health.

President FDR's failed 1937 attempt to increase the number of US Supreme Court Justices from 9 to 15 in order to save his 2nd New Deal programs from constitutional challenges.

A 1935 law, also known as the Wagner Act, that guarantees workers the right of collective bargaining sets down rules to protect unions and organizers, and created the National Labor Relations Board to regulate labor-managment relations.

A relief, recovery, and reform effort that gave 2.5 million poor citizens jobs and land. It brought cheap electric power, built dams, low-cost housing, cheap nitrates, and the restoration of eroded soil.

France, Great Britain, Russia, United States, Japan, and Italy during World War I.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria during World War I.

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

American boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI.

A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.

A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters.

Movement of over 300,000 African Americans from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920.

A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

Gave women the right to vote.

1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.

Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks.

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished.