Unit 6: 7-4.3 & 7-4.4 The Great Depression & Totalitarian Govt

The name given to the programs enforced by FDR to ensure relief, recovery and reform. 

• Stock Market 
• Great Depression
• Margin 
• New Deal 

This President enforced both New Deals and saw America through the Great Depression and World War II. 

• Eisenhower
• Truman
• Hoover
• Roosevelt 

During the Great Depression, many people were unemployed.  This means that they lost their ____________.

• jobs
• homes
• families
• friends

Who had to take full blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles?

• Britain
• Ottoman Empire
• Germany
• Russia

Germany had to pay for Allied war damages, according to the Treaty of Versailles.  The term for this is ______________.

• checkbook
• reparations
• destruction
• partition

Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops during the Depression because 

• the soil lost its fertility
• frequent rains eroded the soil
• a terrible drought dried the soil
• The French had bought all their crops

What role did famers play in causing the dust bowl?

• None
• It was all their fault
• Did not rotate crops; ruined the soil
• Did not harvest crops; brought locusts to their fields

What is the stock market?

• A place to buy and sell stock.
• A business located on Main Street New York
• A place where people go when they are unemployed.
• A place where the dust bowl took place.

The aftermath of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 included

• the closing of banks
• low rate of unemployment
• credit bailouts
• circuit breakers

How did the 1929 stock market crash affect the United States economy in the 1930s?

• Unemployment reached its highest level in United States history. 
• Congress voted to reject New Deal policies. 
•  Stock prices were higher than investors could afford.    
• Agriculture replaced manufacturing as the primary industry.