The Roaring 20s
General WWII
Leaders
The Great Depression
Causes of World War II
100

What 1929 event started the Great Depression?

The Stock Market Crash of 1929

100
Name three of the major Allied powers.
Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, or China
100
Who was the German dictator?
Hitler
100

What were the shantytowns of unemployed people during the Great Depression called?

"Hoovervilles"

100
What was the German excuse for the start of WWII, in their opinion?
The harshness of the Treaty of Versailles
200
This term referred to women that did not conform to societal expectations.
What is a flapper
200
What were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
200
Who was Britain's prime minister?
Churchill
200

Who was president during the first half the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover

200

In the acronym "FART" the "A" stands for this

What is "appeasement"

300

This amendment gave women the right to vote

What is the 19th amendment?

300

How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?

6 million

300

Who was the president of the US at the start of World War II?

Franklin D. Rosevelt

300

This environmental event led to many Americans living in the mid-west having to move elsewhere

What is the Dust Bowl

300

What two countries allowed Germany to gain so much power through their policy of appeasement?

Britain and France

400

This term refers to the time when alcohol was illegal 

What is Prohibition?

400

What year did America join World War II?

1941

400
Who was the cruel dictator of the Soviet Union who changed it into a industrial and military powerhouse?
Joseph Stalin
400

Which event is most closely associated with the end of the Great Depression?

What is World War II?

400

The invasion of this country led to war being declared in Europe

What is Poland

500

During the 1920s, buying on this was popular. This would eventually lead to the stock market colipase

What is on margin?


Or on credit?

500

How were the results of the Manhattan project used?

To use the atomic bomb to bomb the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

500
What Italian leader was overthrown and put in jail but rescued by the Germans in 1945?
Benito Mussolini
500

This plan under FDR led to much less unemployment during the Great Depression

What is the New Deal?

500

What December 7th, 1941 event led to the US declaring war on Japan?

The bombing of Pearl Harbor
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