WWI thru WWII
Study Game
What countries were
Allied Powers in
World War I?
France
Great Britain
Russia
Billy is trying to research WWI and its
causes and some website said that the
cause was the assassination of Archduke
and Duchesse Ferdinand of
Austria/Hungary. Is this true?
yes
A.appeasement
B.nationalism
C.imperialism
D.marketing
What was the “final blow” that
led President Woodrow Wilson to
ask Congress to declare war
against the Central Powers led by
Germany in World War I?
The Zimmermann Telegram,
urging Mexico to attack the U.S.
Who was the dictator of
Italy who sent troops into
Ethiopia in 1935?
Mussolini
Which side of WWI
consisted of Russia, France,
Great Britain, and the U.S..
Allied Powers
At which Georgia military installation
were most army infantry in Georgia
trained during World War I?
Camp Benning
In the 1920s, Georgia was NOT
affected by
1. An increase in cotton production and cotton
prices
2. A prolonged drought
3. Boll weevils
4. The loss of thousands of working farms
What was the nickname given
to the day in 1929 the stock
market “crashed” dramatically?
Black Tuesday.
What was the term used to describe cargo
ships built by the United States in World
War 2 to help support the Allied war
effort by shipping supplies to the Allied
forces?
Liberty Ships
What term describes the belief
that economic problems can
work themselves out in the
marketplace without
government help or controls?
Laissez-faire
This man was assassinated by a Serbian
man. Because of his assassination,
Austria declared war on Serbia, thus
starting WWI.
Why did President Franklin
D. Roosevelt spend so much
time in Georgia?
The warm mineral waters of
Warm Springs relieved his
polio symptoms.
When Great Britain and France let
Hitler take over Sudetenland, a part of
Czechoslovakia, to avoid war, what
policy did they use?
Appeasement
Alex is an infantry soldier. He was
sent to a camp that trains infantry
soldiers in Columbus. To which fort
did Alex likely go?
Fort Benning
Tilak Patel and Hitesh Honkanadavar
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Where is the factory where 30,000
men and women built B-29 bombers
at the Bell Bomber Plant?
Marietta
What was the purpose of the
Social Security Act?
It was to create a system of
retirement supplement
PLUS unemployment and
disability insurance.
Though its design was intended
differently, which group ended
up benefitting most from the
AAA?
Property Owners
Civilian Conservation
Corps
What was the law that provided
college or high school education
and low interest mortgages to
World War II veterans?
G. I. Bill
What New Deal program
resulted from President
Roosevelt’s view of rural
Georgia while sitting on his
porch in the evening?
Which Georgia governor whose firing
of college deans who wanting to
integrate the colleges resulted in the
university system’s being placed on
probation with the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools?
Eugene Talmadge
QUESTION :
What law said that Allies could buy arms from
the US if they paid cash and carried them in
their own ships?
Answer: Lend-Lease Act
Which countries were members of
the Axis Powers in World War II?
Germany
Italy
Japan
& Hungary (minor player)
Linda works at the biggest aircraft facility in
the Deep South. She has to put the wings on
the B-29 bombers that were being built for
the US Army. At which aircraft facility does
Linda work?
Bell-Aircraft- Marietta GA
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Which dictator was the
leader of Germany during
World War II?
Adolf Hitler
In the late 1930s, the United States was
not taking part in the affairs of other
nations. This policy is known as what?
Isolationism
What term best describes the
involvement of the United States
in World War II before the
bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Neutrality
What did the Lend-Lease Act do for
countries like the
United Kingdom and the Soviet Union?
It provided Allied countries
with war materials.
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Where was President Franklin D.
Roosevelt when he died on April
24, 1945, while sitting for a
portrait at the Little White
House?
Warm Springs,
Georgia
Which was NOT a major
military installation in Georgia
during World War II?
A. Fort Benning
B. Camp Gordon
C. Kings Bay Nuclear Sub Base
D. Warner Robbins Air Base, Georgia
Who was the Georgian
known as the “father of
the two-ocean navy”?
Carl Vinson
Which New Deal program federally
insured individual savings accounts so
that people did not lose their money
if banks failed or closed their doors?
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC)
Why did the United States reexamine its policy of isolationism
toward the end of WWII?
Because of all the
people that died in the
Holocaust.
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The ________ ________ Act set up a
system of pensions for older people
and is still in use today.
It was the movement of the
blacks to the North to find
better jobs.
What was the
Great Migration?
Many state parks would NOT
have been possible without
the work of which
government program?
CCC
(& WPA in less cases)
This was the “Final Straw” for President
Woodrow Wilson that caused him to
ask Congress to declare war on
Germany.
A)France, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, and
Russia
B)Germany, France, the U.S., and Russia
C)Germany, Great Britain, Russia, and the U.S.
D) Russia, France, Great Britain, and the U.S.
The boll weevil was a small
____________________
beetle that destroyed Georgia’s
primary crop in the 1920s, throwing
the state into an early depression.
WHICH OF THESE WAS NOT AN ATTRIBUTE OF
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT?
A. URGING CONGRESS TO PASS A SERIES OF
LAWS KNOWN AS THE NEW DEAL
B. BECOMING PRESIDENT DESPITE FIGHTING
POLIO
C. KNOWN FOR HAVING A LAISSEZ-FAIRE
ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ECONOMY
How did Hitler come
into power?
Germany was in a terrible state after
the war from the penalties that were
opposed on them. The Nazi party
promised to make them great again.
Germans elected Hitler to office.
Relief
____________________ was a term
used to describe efforts to provide
money and goods or services to
people with special needs during the
Great Depression.
Roosevelt’s response to the Great
Depression was a series of economic
recovery programs and social
improvement programs known as
what?
The New Deal
What happened on December 7,
1941 on a Sunday morning at
8:00 a.m. that caused President
Roosevelt to call the day a “day
that will live in infamy.”
The Japanese
attack on Pearl
Harbor
Georgia Governor
____________________
Eugene Talmadge disliked
federal government programs and
government debt, so he refused to
follow New Deal programs, leading
the federal government to take over
Georgia’s New Deal administration.
Where in Georgia were
Liberty Ships
constructed during
World War II?
Brunswick &
Savannh
Bell Aircraft Company
assembled B-29 bombers
for the U.S. Army Air Force
at the plant located in
Marietta
____________________,
Georgia.
The _____________ _______________
_______________ ________________ was set up to
insure deposits people made into banks.
This is still around today and insures
$250,000 per account. Hint: It is four words.
Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
(FDIC)
What were the causes of the
Great Depression?
•People were borrowing more money than they could
repay
•Over-production of crops and goods
•Tariffs
•Speculation
•Failure of banks
•Laissez-faire
Many of the dictators who rose to power
made nonaggression pacts, agreeing not
to wage war against each other. Hitler
made this pact with a man who had
gained control of the Soviet Union. What
man was this?
Joseph Stalin
The attack on
Pearl Harbor
____________________________
brought the United States into
World War II.
Why did the United States reexamine its policy of isolationism
after discovering the German
concentration camps?
We blamed our policy of
isolationism on our ignorance
of Hitler’s “final solution”.
Which president was brave
enough to lead the U.S through
the Great Depression with the
New Deal programs?
Bill seems to think it was Herbert
Hoover. Is he correct?
No, Roosevelt
Former Georgia Governor
Richard
Russell
___________________________ ,who
served 38 years in the U.S. Senate, is
often known as the “Father of the
School Lunch Program” and a strong
supporter of military preparedness.
Holocaust
_______________________,
which means “sacrifice by fire”, is
the term used to refer to the
murder of over six million Jews
and others in Nazi concentration
camps.
The destruction of the Lusitania
caused by whom?
The Germans
After Roosevelt began his LendLease program with Great Britain,
what would have been Hitler’s
belief concerning the United
States’ attitude toward Germany?
The U.S. was, in fact, taking
sides with the British.
What is the big deal about
the Superior Court in Georgia?
It is the top
ranking TRIAL
court in Georgia
True or False: A joint
committee is also a
standing committee?
FALSE
Judiciary Committee’s
The _______________
bills deal with the states’ laws and
court system.
The false stories spread of
attacks on whites by African
Americans resulted in what ?.
The Atlanta Race Riot
of 1906
After a bill is introduced
(read out loud), to
whom is it assigned?
The clerk assigns it to
committees of both the
House and Senate.
What is the minimum age
requirement to serve in the
Georgia Senate?
Must be at least 25 years of
age.
What gave more political
power to less populated rural
counties than urban counties
and allowed the rural
counties to maintain power
in statewide elections?
The county
unit system
What happens to a bill passed
by the legislature if the governor
does not veto it, but does not
sign it?
After six days in session it will
become a law without the
governor's signature.
What must happen before a bill
is voted on?
It must be reviewed and
passed by a committee.
How can the General Assembly pass
a bill over a governor's veto?
General Assembly can override a
veto by a 2/3 majority of both the
Senate and the House.
The task of turning an idea into
a law belongs to
___________________________
The legislature
Who is in charge of
the
GA House of
Representatives?
Speaker of the House
A group of legislators organized
by subject area every legislative
session is known as what?
A standing committee
In what country did Eugene Jacques Bullard
participate in various combat pilot
missions?
A: Portugal
B: Russia
C: USA
D: France
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The Tuskegee Airmen
What group of people excelled as
bomber escorts and flew more than
15,000 combat sorties? Their
excellent service led U.S. president
Harry S. Truman to
integrate the U.S.
military.