What decade is most closely associated with drought, bank failures, unemployment and expanded role of the federal government?
What is 1930s
100
This president increased the number of federal relief programs
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
New government agency that still protects consumer savings today
What is the FDIC?
100
what was the role of the United States BEFORE they declared war on Japan?
What is supporting Great Britain
100
What did the Allies do to Japan to force their surrender?
What is drop the atomic bomb?
200
What book was written by John Steinbeck about life during the Dust Bowl?
What is Grapes of Wrath?
200
This government policy provides retirement income today
What is the Social Security Act?
200
Put the following events in correct order
I. The United States uses the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
II. Allied forces launch the D-Day invasion of Europe
III. Vice President Harry S Truman becomes president after Franklin Roosevelt’s death
IV. Japanese forces launch a surprise attack against the naval base at Pearl Harbor
What is IV, II, III, I
200
This is the major turning point in the war in the Pacific against Japan
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
What was the event that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
What is the Stock Market Crash?
300
How did FDR try to expand the power of the Federal Government over the Senate and Congress?
What is by reorganizing the Supreme Court?
300
What are the three New Deal categories that describe the purpose of the New Deal programs?
What are relief, reform, recovery?
300
What is the name of the event where millions of Jews were killed in Europe?
What is the Holocaust
300
Major turning point in the war against Germany in Europe
What is D-Day?
400
What are the four causes of the Great Depression?
What are poor banking systems, reduction of crop value/prices, mechanization, and buying on margin?
400
Where did most people move to to escape the Dust Bowl?
What is California?
400
What was the long lasting effect of the New Deal policies such as the FDIC and the Social Securities Act?
What is expansion of federal power?
400
this event caused the United States to declare war on Japan
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
Major turning point between USSR and Germany in Europe
What is Stalingrad?
500
What is the term for when you buy stock with only a little bit of money down?
What is buying on margin?
500
Percentage of Americans out of work in the Great Depression
What is 25%
500
What president is responsible for the New Deal policies?
Who is FDR
500
This is the year in which WWII began in Europe
What is 1939
500
This country was the first to surrender to the Allies