World War II

Which economic factor contributed directly to the start of the Great Depression? 

• low worker productivity
• decreasing tariff rates
• high income taxes
•  buying stocks on margin

As part of the New Deal, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created to  

• allow for a quick recovery of stock prices
• provide direct loans to businesses
• protect money placed in banks by people
• allow banks and companies to invest in the stock market

“The tools of government which we have in 1933 are outmoded.  We have to forge new tools for a new role of government in democracy – a role of new responsibility for new needs and increased responsibility for old needs, long neglected.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt 
 
Why did President Roosevelt make this statement?  

• to support a renewal of laissez-faire economics
•  to secure aid for democratic countries in Europe
• to justify an increase in the number of Supreme Court justices
• to explain his New Deal programs

Which was an effect of the Great Depression on the American economy? A.   B.   C.   D. 

• high employment and overproduction
• high unemployment and falling real estate values
• large business investments and low taxes
• too much money in circulation and high stock prices

Senator Huey Long, Dr. Francis Townsend, and Father Charles Coughlin are best known as 

• members of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet
• outspoken critics of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal
• supporters of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s reelection campaign in 1940
• members of the Supreme Court nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to December 7, 1941 as “a date which will live in infamy” because on that day 

• Germany attacked Poland
• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
• Italy declared war on the United States
• the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Which was an example of appeasement?  

• The U.S. Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937
• The conquest of Poland in 1939
• The entry of the United States into World War II in 1941 
• The agreement of Britain and France to give Germany the Sudetenland in 1938

This World War II poster recognizes the 

• eturn of women to the workforce after war
• contributions of women to wartime defense
• ole of women as military officers
• legal equality of women

What was an immediate effect of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan? 

• the outbreak of World War II in Asia
• official entry of the United States into the war against Japan
• the surrender of Japan to the United States
• Soviet troops left Germany

No. 27. Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty, wherever ordered?
No. 28. Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and foreswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, or any other foreign government, power, or organization?

Japanese Americans were required to answer these questions before they were  

• given a dishonorable discharge from the military
• allowed to contest deportation orders to return to Japan
• released from relocation centers
• allowed to apply for repatriation to Japan