| A | B |
| The Dust Bowl | drought in the mid-west, 1930's, |
| 1920, The Nineteenth Amendment | Women won the right to vote. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Eighth Virginian to become President, he was president during World War I |
| The Great Depression | 1929, businesses fail, people lose jobs |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1932, planned the New Deal, president during World War II |
| The New Deal | a plan to create jobs during the Great Depression |
| Skyline Drive, Six state parks built | projects completed in Virginia because of the New Deal |
| December 7, 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor | The U.S. joins the fighting in World War II. |