The Crash
What's the New Deal?
New Deal Continued?
World War Looms
The War Starts
100
October 29, 1929, the day the bottom fell out of the market.
What is Black Tuesday
100
cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor.
What is Direct relief
100
This was when the federal government had to go deeply into debt to provide jobs and aid to the American people. The federal deficit increased to $2.9 billion in fiscal year 1934.
What is Deficit Spending
100
In his book Mein Kampf [My Struggle], he set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that became the plan of action for the German brand of fascism, which was based on extreme nationalism. He dreamed of uniting all German-speaking people in a great German empire.
Who is Adolf Hitler
100
This form of government stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals in order to "strengthen" the nation.
What is Fascism
200
An arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for purchases.
What is Credit (or installment plan)
200
FDR's program, designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, became known as this.
What is the New Deal
200
President FDR suffered from this, despite most of the American public not being away of it.
What is Polio
200
This is the hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
What is anti-Semitic
200
This "night of broken glass," was really set in motion years before, when the Nuremberg laws had been passed.
What is Kristallnacht
300
paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
What is Buying a stock on margin
300
As part of the Second New Deal, the Roosevelt administration and Congress set up a series of programs to help youths, professionals, and other workers. One of the largest was called this
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
300
This provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities.
What is the Social Security Act
300
His plan was to create a sound communist state and wait for world revolution. He also signed the non-aggression pact with the German leader.
Who is Joseph Stalin
300
After the "night of broken glass," and the for the years to come, these areas were set up in certain Polish cities which segregated the Jewish population.
What is Ghetto(s)
400
Buying stocks and bonds on the chance of a quick profit, while ignoring the risks.
What is Speculation
400
This New Deal program put young men aged 18 to 25 to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
400
This New Deal program renovated five existing dams and constructed 20 new ones, created thousands of jobs, and provided flood control, hydroelectric power, and other benefits to an impoverished region.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
400
He was the British prime minister that met with the führer and then signed the Munich Agreement, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired.
Who is Neville Chamberlain
400
Once war broke out, Germany, Italy and Japan joined together to form this.
What are the Axis powers
500
This was the most widely used barometer of the stock market’s health. It was a measure based on the stock prices of 30 representative large firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average
500
After becoming president, he used government programs to combat the Depression directly.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
500
An actor, director, producer, and writer, he created one of the most renowned radio broadcasts of all time, “The War of the Worlds.”
Who is Orson Welles
500
In his view, the signing of the Munich Agreement, Great Britain had adopted a shameful policy of appeasement
Who is Winston Churchill
500
By late 1940 Britain had no more cash to spend in the arsenal of democracy. Roosevelt tried to help by suggesting this new plan, under which the U.S. would send arms and other supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the United States.”
What is the Lend-Lease Act
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