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New Deal
Originally Boulder Dam
Colorado River - Lake Mead Ans: Hoover Dam
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Created to regulate distribution of water and electricity
Built 20+ dams Ans: Tennessee Valley Authority
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Wide margin between urban and rural areas access to electricity
Installation of electrical distribution systems Ans: Rural Electrification
Administration
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Columbia River - Pacific NW Ans: Grand Coulee Dam
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Unemployment Relief
Employed 3 million young men Ans: Civilian Conservation Corps
81 army vehicles from DC to San Francisco Ans: First Transcontinental
Motor Convoy
Start of defense contracts Ans: Eli Whitney
Identical parts that can be mass produced and replaced Ans:
Interchangeable Parts
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Thomas Edison helped to create
Coordinates inventive activity for the military
Few ideas Ans: Naval Consulting Board
Headed by Vannevar Bush
Massive Budget and reported only to the president
Oversaw many projects; Including the Manhattan Project Ans: Office of
Scientific Research and Development
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Developed by the British
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US research at MIT Rad Lab Ans: Radar
Worlds first computer
Calculated artillery firing tables Ans: ENIAC
Project too big for one organization alone
Eisenhower worried about people making money from war
Never cut spending Ans: Military Industrial Complex
Universe of atoms Ans: Democritus
Discovered electrons Ans: JJ Thomson
First to understand theoretical possibility of atomic bomb
Asked Einstein for help Ans: Leo Szilard
Created worlds first nuclear reactor at University of Chicago Ans: Enrico
Fermi
In charge of Manhattan Project Ans: Robert Oppenheimer