MUSH B Semester Review #1

What caused many farmers to foreclose on their farms in the 1930s?

• Growing too few crops

• Overproduction of crops and costs of machines

• Expensive land and not enough workers

• The Wall Street Crash

Why did the stock market collapse in 1929?

• Only wealthy Americans invested in the stock market

• Investors inflated prices, and then sold shares very cheap, losing money

• Investors refused to invest in the stock market

• Investors bought shares cheap, and then sold stocks at a high price

What was Roosevelt's New Deal?

• A series of government-funded bail outs

• A series of federally funded public works programs

• A hands-off approach to business and the economy

• A series of voluntary business recovery acts

What was the Great Depression?

• A period of economic success and an improving economy

• The worst economic catastrophe in U.S. history

• A period of time that witnessed American involvement in violent foreign wars

• A hotly contested presidential election

What was one direct effect of WWII activities like those promoted by this poster?

• changes in the traditional roles of women

• the establishment of women's suffrage

• combat training for women

• the election of women political leaders

Germany, Japan, and Italy were all members of what side during World War II?

• Allied Powers

• Axis Powers

• Central Powers

The US declared a position of neutrality in World War II but indirectly participated by providing weapons and ammunition to Great Britain and other allies through a program called:

• Lend-Lease

• Appeasement

• Non-aggression

• Dollar Diplomacy

At the conclusion of WW2, which two countries became world powers?

• Germany and Japan

• Japan and Vietnam

• Soviet Union and Japan

• United States and Soviet Union

When the United States sent military aid to African governments to help them resist communism, it was continuing a foreign policy first asserted in the

• Potsdam Agreement.

• Teheran Conference.

• Marshall Plan.

• Truman Doctrine.

What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift, between the years 1948 and 1949?

• To bring necessary supplies to assist the Communists after World War II.

• It was designed to help citizens in France to resist Communism.

• Moving Allied soldiers to help fight the Nazis during World War II.

• To supply the citizens of West Berlin while the Soviet blockade continued.