World War II

What marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

• The Dust Bowl

• High Unemployment Rates

• stock market crash of 1929

• Election of President Hoover.

Describe Roosevelt’s New Deal program to fight the Depression.

• Creating welfare to help those lacking financial resources.

• Program created to fix the issues of the farming industry

• Creating Social Security.

• Large public works projects helped to provide jobs

What German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles & combat communism?

• Weirmar Republic

• Nazis

• Fascists

• Totalitarians

What 3 nations successfully invaded other nations during the early 1930s?

• Germany, Italy, & Japan

• Russia, Germany, Italy

• Germany, Ottoman Empire, Italy

• Russia, Germany, Japan

Who are the Axis Powers?

• Great Britain, US, France, Russia

• Germany, Ottoman Empire, Italy

• France, Great Britain, Russia

• Germany, Italy, & Japan

Explain why millions of Germans turned against the leaders of the Weirmar Republic.

• Because they lead Germany into the Great Depression

• Because they signed the Treaty of Versailles

• They lost WWI

Describe the major cause of the collapse of the stock market.

• Stocks sold for more than they were worth

• The failure of the banking system.

• High unemployment rates.

• The Dust Bowl

What fear added to the appeal of fascism in Italy & Germany?

• Fear of another World War.

• No one trusts democracy.

• Fear of another Great Depression.

• A communist revolution

Why did Hitler target the Jewish population as scapegoats for all of Germany’s troubles?

• He hated his mother and she was Jewish.

• anti-Semitism is a key part of Nazi ideology

• Jewish people weren't as affected by the Great Depression.

Explain how the Holocaust & Hitler’s “Final Solution” were related.

• Final solution is the term genocide resulting in Holocaust.

• Holocaust is genocide resulting from the Final Solution

• They are both the same thing.