The Great Depression and WWII

Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

Who was elected president because he had a plan to pull America out of the Great Depression?

• William McKinley
• Woodrow Wilson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

What was the name of FDR's plan to reconstruct America following the Great Depression?

• No Deal
• New Deal
• Reconstruction
• FDR's Plan

Which New Deal program gave jobs to young men between the ages of 18-25? The employees built roads, planted forests, and worked on irrigation and national park projects.

• CCC
• UGA
• WPA
• TVA

People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these neighborhoods called?

• Shantyshacks

• Town Homes

• Tenement Housing

• Hoovervilles

True or False: The New Deal plan completely fixed the broken American economy.

• True
• False

What tool - passed during the Hoover Administration - designed to protect American manufacturers actually ended up contributing to the Great Depression?

• New Deal

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff

• 2nd New Deal

FDR wanted to be able to control all parts of the government including the Supreme court, he tried doing this by attempting to...

• Abolish the Supreme court

• Take away judges

• Give more power to the courts

• Pack the Supreme Court with his judges

What did the FDIC do?

• secure deposits

• help the unemployed

• plant trees

• build bridges

How did WW2 in the Pacific Theater end?

• both sides agreed to peacefully resolve their differences

• the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan

• the Germans forced the Soviets to surrender

• the League of Nations declared the war illegal