Economics
Is "How much of something is available" SUPPLY or DEMAND?
Supply
Which event signaled the START of the Great Depression?
The stock market crash
What event caused the United States to officially become involved in World War II?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
What was the Red Scare?
The fear that communists were in the U.S. and performing sabotage.
What was the Manhattan Project?
a Top Secret government project designed to build a nuclear bomb before Germany
When supply is _____ and demand is _____ prices are higher. (high or low)
Low; High
Which country had hyperinflation after WWI to the point where citizens needed a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread?
Germany
What was the country that Germany invaded on September 1, 1939, causing World War II to officially break out?
Poland
Why was the world conflict between the years of 1947 and 1991 called the Cold War?
The US & USSR competed and fought proxy wars, but never actually fought each other
Which country had a Communist Revolution before WWII started?
Russia
What is the name for something you buy that signifies you own part of a company.
A series of U.S. federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by FDR to try to get us out of the Great Depression was called what?
The New Deal
Which battle between the US and Germany was challenging because US troops arrived on beaches where Germans were ready to attack?
D Day
The event that was the CLOSEST the world ever came to Nuclear War was called what?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Fascism vs. Communism: Which system ALLOWS for private ownership and capitalism
Fascism
Economics studies the _________, ________, and _________ of goods.
Production, Distribution, Consumption
Hoover or FDR? Which president focused on people HELPING THEMSELVES out of the Great Depression and which president focused on the GOVERNMENT helping?
Hoover: Help themselves
FDR: Government
Name 3 groups that were send to German concentration camps.
Jewish people, criminals, disabled people, socialists, communists, people who challenged Hitler and the Nazis, people who refused to cooperate with the Nazis, people who hid Jewish people
Why does the U.S. consider itself to have “won” the Space Race?
We landed on the moon
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident caused the US to enter which war?
The Vietnam War
An economic system that supports free enterprise, private ownership of business and property and promotes competition is called what?
Capitalism
The three R’s of the New Deal were…
Relief, Reform, Recovery
The Blitzkrieg, used to defeat enemies quickly, that utilized carpet bombing, then columns of tanks, then finally armed soldiers, was used by what country?
Germany
The SALT I Treaty, the first agreement to limit how many nuclear weapons each country could have, was under what president?
Nixon
The concept of crimes against humanity and the idea that individuals could be held responsible for their crimes during war were established because of what set of trials after WWII?
The Nuremberg Trials