WWII Crossword Puzzle by Acadia Brown

a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth
the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries,
an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded
a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
a federal agency that controls the electricity, irrigation and flood control from the dams and reservoirs along the Tennessee River.
the term used by commentators at the time and historians ever since to characterize the second stage, 1935-36, of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work
a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.
the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a world-renowned advocate of liberal causes in her own right.
served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935.
a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties.
naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships
putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime
act of assembling and organizing national resources to support national objectives in time of war or other emergencies
allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity).
the transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause with payment made by a return of the original items
A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor.
the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
last major battle in Europe during World War II. It resulted in the surrender of the German army and an end to Adolf Hitler's rule.
a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.
An unincorporated community of north-central New Mexico northwest of Santa Fe.
a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II
a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar.