WWII Great Depression

Month and Day that Stock Market Crashed

• October 28, 1929
• October 29, 1928
• October 29, 1929
• October 29, 1939

The Great Depression began in

• 1925
• 1929
• 1932
• 1940

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

After WWI, the ____________________________ of the 1930s brought chaos and unemployment to Europe, which led to the rise of authoritarian dictators.

• Imperialism
• Treaty of Versailles 
• Great Depression
• Invasion of Nanking 

In 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany as a direct result of the German...

• invasion of Poland
• seizure of the Sudetenland
• occupation of the Rhineland
• annexation of Austria

Which of the following events during WWII brought the United States into the war?

• Germany's invasion of Poland
• D-Day invasion of Normandy
• Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jewish people
• Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor

Who was the leader of the Nazi party and was the leader of Germany?

• Stalin
• Roosevelt
• Mussolini
• Hitler

Why was President Franklin Roosevelt hesitant to get involved in World War II?

• He considered Germany and Japan strong allies of the United States
• He wanted to maintain the U.S. foreign policy of isolationism
• He was opposed to the Lend-Lease Act
• He had supported the Japanese invasion of China in 1937