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Who was the president during the Great Depression and New Deal?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
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What was one cause of the Great Depression?
Stock market crash, bank failures, drought conditions, Europe's struggling economy, etc.
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Describe the Dustbowl in the midwestern states like Kansas
Very dry and dusty, people had to cover their mouths, no green vegetation in sight
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What happened on Black Tuesday?
The stock market crashed
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Did people buy or sell all of their stocks on black Tuesday?
Sell
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What does the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) do?
insure up to $250,000 in savings account
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What is one man made structure that we have today because of the New Deal?
dams, bridges, parks, etc.
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Name two Countries that were in the Allied Powers
Lots of options include: Great Britain, France, the United States
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Name two Countries that were in the Axis Powers
Germany, Japan, Italy
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Which Country was Adolf Hitler the leader of?
Germany
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Describe what the symbol Rosie the Riveter meant for U.S. women?
That they could do the same jobs as men, and were very important to the war effort.
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Who was the US President during WW 2?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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What happened during D-Day?
The United States and allied powers led an assault on the beach at Normandy.
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What famous event brought the U.S. into world war 2 on December 7, 1941?
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
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What was one major cause of World War 2?
Hitler's aggression, the conditions put on Germany after World War 1, etc.
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What technology allowed the United States to defeat Japan?
The atomic bomb
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Millions of People died in World War 2 True of False
True
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The Axis Powers won World War 2 True or False
False
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What new role did the United States have at the end of World War 2?
A world leader
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Which describes what happened during the Cuban missile crisis?
American spy planes discovered that the Soviet Union was installing long-range nuclear missiles in Cuba
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What was John F. Kennedy's Solution to the Cuban missile crisis?
Blockade Cuba to make sure no missiles can be put on the island
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What form of economics/government did the Soviet Union follow?
Communism
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What does the Peace Corps do?
Send americans to help countries in need
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What is one positive way that Nuclear energy can be used?
Nuclear power plants
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