texas history flash cards
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oveta Culp Hobby | Colonel in the Womens's Army Corps during WW2
🗑
|
||||
Dwight Eisenhower | Important military Leader during WW2
🗑
|
||||
Rosie the Riveter | Imaninary female person that represented all women who went to work in the factories during WW2 while the men were at war
🗑
|
||||
Hector P. Garcia | founded American G.I Forum and fought discrimination against hispanics
🗑
|
||||
Zimmerman Telegram | sent by Arthur Zimmerman to Mexico trying to get them to join them in WW1. Germany promised to help the mexicans get back the southwestern U.S
🗑
|
||||
Texas Oil and The Entire World | Texas thrust into world market becuase of the global demand for oil
🗑
|
||||
Economic effect on WW2 on Texas | caused us to move toward industrialization and most people became employed
🗑
|
||||
Urban Texas | grew in texas becuase industrial jobs near cities grew and people movedto town
🗑
|
||||
Texas "black migration" | oil industry gave them economic opportunities and better jobs so they moved
🗑
|
||||
Germanys promise to mexico | if mexico would join WW1 germany would help them get back southwestern U.S.
🗑
|
||||
Urban | city life
🗑
|
||||
Rural | Farm life
🗑
|
||||
Effect of texas oil production during WW2 | Helped the allies win WW2
🗑
|
||||
Effect of dust bowl | brought on farm subsidies use of irragation new farming techniques and population re distribution
🗑
|
||||
Great depression and its effect on women/ minorities | they lost jobs to anglo males
🗑
|
||||
order of events | 1. WW1
2. Great depression
3. dust bowl
4. WW2
🗑
|
||||
Current stimulus is to obama as ____________ is to FDR is to new deal | New Deal
🗑
|
||||
cause of dust bowl | drought, poor farming techniques
🗑
|
||||
U.S. reason for entering WW2 | Pearl Harbor
🗑
|
||||
U.S. reason for entering WW1 | Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram (Zimmerman Telegram was the last straw)
🗑
|
||||
Petrochemical Industry | industry that produces many things from crude oil… very important industry!
🗑
|
||||
Wildcatters | people who roamed the country looking for places to drill for oil
🗑
|
||||
Alphabet Agencies | Created by New Deal… like WPA, PWA, FDIC etc
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
dmaynard
Popular History sets