5 th grade chapter 8 vocabulary ms. thornburg’s flash cards!
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5th Grade Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Ms. Thornburg’s Flash Cards!
Your Name
What do we call a time after WWI when people were eager for a change and wanted to enjoy
themselves?
Roaring Twenties
Your Name
What do we call the lowest pay a worker can receive by law?
Minimum Wage
Your Name
What do we call a neighborhood outside the main city?
Suburb
Your Name
What do we call a long period of time when there is little or no rain?
Drought
Your Name
What do we call a long, hard time when people were out of work?
Great Depression
Your Name
What do we call it when more people wanted to sell their shares of stock than buy shares—it caused the…?
Stock market crash
Your Name
What do we call it when a person goes to the store and is able to bring home a purchase and pay for it over time?
Installment buying
Your Name
What do we call Hitler’s mass murder of European Jews and other groups?
Holocaust
Your Name
The Japanese attacked _____ early in the morning on Sunday, December 7, 1941?
Pearl Harbor
Your Name
WWII began in Europe when _____ was invaded by Germany?
Poland
Your Name
Hitler put Jews and other groups of people in _____?
Concentration Camps
Your Name
After the war, many countries turned to a form of government where all property was owned by the government. This form of government was called _____?
Communism
Your Name
The largest water to land invasion ever—when the Allied forces invaded France to free them from Germany was called _____?
D-Day
Your Name
Who was the New Deal president?
Franklin Roosevelt
Your Name
Who was the ruler of Germany?
Hitler
Your Name
Who flew across the Atlantic Ocean?
Charles Lindbergh
Your Name
Who was the president who ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped?
Truman
Your Name
Who was known for the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Your Name
What countries made up the Allied forces?
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Your Name
What countries made up the Axis powers?
Germany
Italy
Japan