Stock Market Crash, overuse of credit, bank failure, overproduction and less spending, drought/dust, unequal distribution of wealth, high tariffs
100
True or False? Fireside chats were meetings in which Roosevelt's top advisers gathered around a fire and discussed possible solutions to the nation's economic problems.
False
100
Who was the leader of the Communist Soviet Union?
Joseph Stalin
100
How did many Americans feel about the start of WWII?
Felt bad for the Allies, but did not want to get involved
100
With the U.S. now in the war, why did the Allies concentrate on defeating Hitler first?
To halt the Axis occupation that they had over most of Europe and much of North Africa
200
Which U.S. region suffered an environmental disaster and became known as the Dust Bowl?
New England, Great Plains, Southwest, or West Coast
Great Plains
200
True or False? FDR had trouble with the Supreme Court because the Court declared several of his New Deal programs unconstitutional.
True
200
What vocab term means the policy of giving in to the demands of others in an effort to keep peace?
Appeasement
200
Which law allowed the U.S. to provide weapons to any country "vital to the defense of the United States?
Lend-Lease Act
200
Dwight D. Eisenhower landed his Allied troops on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. What was this event known as?
D-Day
300
Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath about a family feeling the Dust Bowl?
John Steinbeck
300
Which of the following is NOT one of the three "R's" of the New Deal?
Relief, reform, redistribute, or recovery
Redistribute
300
Where did the blitzkrieg occur?
Poland
300
When did American neutrality end?
After the attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
300
Who was the Allied commander in the Philippines?
Douglas MacArthur
400
By 1932, about ____ % of American workers were unemployed.
25
400
Which of the following is true of the legacy of the New Deal?
A. It was a complete failure
B. It gave the government a larger role in the economic success of the people of the U.S.
C. Its success was only short-term for none of the New Deal programs exist today
B. It gave the government a larger role in the economic success of the people of the U.S.
400
What was the name of the string of steel and concrete bunkers along the French-German border?
Maginot Line
400
Under the ____ Act, the United States began raising an army.
Selective Service
400
True or False? After the Battle of Midway, the United States adopted the strategy of island hopping.
True
500
What challenges were farmers in the mid-west facing during the Great Depression?
Drought, dust storms, less demand for their products
500
“I feel that Mr. Roosevelt has passed several laws which greatly restrict the businesses and industries in this country. Yes, times are tough, but he is a few small steps from becoming a king!”
This statement was most likely made by:
A. The very liberal Huey Long
B. The very conservative American Liberty League
B. The very conservative American Liberty League
500
After the fall of France, which country stood in the way of Adolf Hitler's domination of western Europe?
Great Britain
500
Name 1 way people of the United States helped on the home front.
Purchased war bonds, rationed, grew victory gardens, civil defense, women working
500
Where did the United States drop the first atomic bomb (city)?