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Term | Definition |
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victory gardens | called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable , fruit and herb gardens planted at private residence and public parks in the us,uk |
war bonds | debt securities issue by a goverment to finance military operations and other expenduture in times of war |
propaganda | info, especially at a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicized a particular political cause by point of view |
the great war | the name of world war 1 before it was called world war |
lusitania | ship that germans sank which turned into one of the causes that the us got involved in world war 1 |
Zimmerman-telegram | telegram where the germans promised mexico land in the us if they help them win world war 1 |
dust bowl | was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s |
pension | is a fund into which money is added during an employee's employment years, and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments |
russian revolution | is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. |
New deal | A collection of programs to better the society during the great depression |
boll weevil | a beetle which feedss on cotton |
drought | period where there is little to no rain and everything is dried up |
stock market crash of 1929 | times when the stock market crash |
overgrazing | where there is little to no plantlife |