My 20th Century

• Causes of World War One

  Military

  Alliance

  Nationalism

  Imperialism

  Assassination of Archduke
• Georgia Contributions to World War One

  Military Installations/training camps/Bases

  POW (Prisoners of War) Fort Oglethorpe to hold German prisoners of war

  Soldiers

  Supplies (Victory Gardens, Textile Mills, Railroads, War Bonds, Red Cross)
• What were the names of the military installations

  Fort McPherson, Fort Oglethorpe, Fort Screven, the Arsenal at Augusta and Camp Hancock
• Why did cotton prices drop

  innovations with farm machinery led to them overproducing cotton causing the prices to decrease
• What is the Boll Weevil; where did it come from and what was the result

  A Beetle that destroys cotton; It came from Mexico to Texas to the rest into the southeast; Georgias total cotton crop population had dropped
• What happened after the Boll Weevil crisis?

  A severe drought struck Georgia (there was no rainfall for a long period of time)
• What are the Causes of the Great Depression?

  Borrowed money

  Loaning money

  overproduction of goods

  Lassiez Fair (thinking the economy will fix itself not the government)

  Stock Market Crash
• What was the result of the great depression?

  Saving accounts were emptied because banks ran out of money

  People were forced to sell their homes

  production of consumer goods stopped
• Who was blamed for the Great Depression and stock market crash?

  herbert Hoover
• What was the new deal

  A series of economic recovery progress designed to pull the nation out of the great depression
• What were the four Programs of the new deal

  CCC- helped young men to work on service projects

  AAA- paid farmers subsidies to not grow certain products

  REA- offered to help farmers get electricity

  SSA- provided retirement and

  unemployed insurance
• Who was Franklin D Roosevelt?

  He recevied treatment for his polio in warm springs GA; he spent so much time there so he built a house called the little White House

  *created the programs for the new deal*
• who was Eugene talmadge?


  He served three times as commissioner of agriculture; served three times as governor; white supremacist (Supported segregation) did not support the new deal
• Causes of World War Two

  Treaty of Versailles ( ended WWI and was harsh on germany)

  Great Depression

  rise of dictators
• After Germanys surprise attack on Poland the U.S. remained neutral until..

  Lend lease act- allowed Britain and other allies to to borrow supplies and food to fight against germany

  Japanese aggression in Asia- as the Japanese continued to conquer other countries, the U.S. stopped exporting items

  Pearl Harbour- Japanese planes attacked pearl harbour to stop the U.S military to take over more land in the pacific
• What was the the bell bomber plant?

  The bell bomber plant was built in Marietta GA ( produced the bomber airplanes) offered job opportunities to women and African Americans
• What was the savanna and brunswick shipyards

  these deep sea ports provided ideal naval yards for the construction of the war ships
• Who were Georgias military heros?

  Richard B. Russel- former GA Governor; was elected to the U.S senate, became the chairman for the U.S armed forces (brought military installations to GA)

  carl Vinson- served in the U.S horse of representatives ( longest in US history), created the US army air force, known as the father of the two ocean navy