| A | B |
| name given to the Great Plains after drought and wind storms caused the topsoil to blow away | Dust Bowl |
| severe illness caused by dust damage to the lungs | dust pneumonia |
| people who left the Great Plains because of the dust storms | okies |
| how farmers tried to keep the soil in place | planting trees for windbreaks and plowing deep furrows |
| name for this period | "dirty thirties" |
| leader of Germany; convinced Germans that they had not been treated fairly after WWI | Adolf Hitler |
| Hitler's party | Nazi- (National Socialists) |
| kind of people that Hitler felt were superior | blond, blue-eyed |
| soldiers that attacked Jews and other people who did not support Hitler | storm troopers |
| terrible prisons where Hitler placed people who did not support him | concentration camps |
| all-powerful ruler | dictator |
| Hitler's dream | that Germany would rule the entire world |
| dictator of the Soviet Union | Joseph Stalin |
| Spain's dictator | Fransisco Franco |
| Itay's dictator | Mussolini |
| controlled the government of Japan | military (although Hirohito was the emperor) |
| reason Japan began taking over other counties in Asia | need resources (iron, oil, rubber) |
| caused Britain and France to finally declare war on Germany | invasion of Poland |
| president that promised to keep the US out of WWII | FDR |
| what Congress did to raise an army quickly | pass the first peace time draft law |