Great Depression Basics
October 29, 1929, when the stock market crashed, is remembered as what day?
What is Black Tuesday
Who won the presidential election of 1932?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which treaty after WWI caused anger and resentment in Germany?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Which board decided which companies switched from peacetime to wartime production?
What is the War Production Board?
June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, is known as what?
What is D-Day
Which group struggled the most even before the Depression began?
Who are farmers?
What was Roosevelt’s campaign promise called?
What is The New Deal
Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII?
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The WAAC allowed women to serve in what type of military roles?
What are noncombat roles
What happened on V-E Day, May 8, 1945?
What is Germany Surrendered
What natural disaster forced farm families to leave their land in the 1930s?
What is The Dust Bowl?
Which New Deal law created the FDIC to insure bank deposits?
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
Benito Mussolini created which political system in Italy?
What is fascism
Who organized a 1941 march on Washington for fair treatment of Black workers?
Who is A. Philip Randolph
What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
What is the Battle of Midway
What tariff law backfired when other countries raised tariffs against the U.S.?
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
What New Deal program provided jobs quickly for unemployed Americans?
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
Germany’s lightning-fast military attack strategy was called what?
What is blitzkrieg
What secret U.S. project developed the atomic bomb?
What is the Manhattan Project
The Allies’ strategy of taking islands closer to Japan was called what?
What is island hopping?
What belief did President Hoover have about solving the Depression?
What is rugged individualism?
Name one of the two New Deal agencies that still exist today.
What is the FDIC or the SEC?
What event brought the United States into WWII?
What is Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor?
What was Germany’s goal in the Battle of the Atlantic?
What was cutting off supplies to Britain
Which two Japanese cities were bombed with atomic weapons in 1945?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?