S AH Final Exam Practice #3 - Terms #49 - 70

What event led to the beginning of the Great Depression in October of 1929?

• The Stock Market Crash

• The first Dust Bowl windstorm

• The attack on Pearl Harbor

• The sinking of the USS Maine

Where did the Okies who fled the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression in the 1930s mostly go?

• Texas

• the rural South

• Big cities (like Pittsburgh)

• California

The New Deal were the programs President _______________, proposed to fix the Great Depression.

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Lyndon B. Johnson

What ended the Great Depression?

• World War I

• World War II

• 1st New Deal

• 2nd New Deal

Which New Deal program was intended to stabilize the banking system?

• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

• Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Social Security (SS)

• National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

(T/F) During World War II, the U.S. was primarily involved in fighting on only one front - against the Germans in the USSR.

• True

• False

Which of the following was NOT connected to the World War 2 homefront?

• Double-V Campaign - the NAACP encouraged African Americans to support the war & fight segregation

• Japanese Internment - The military rounded up Japanese American immigrants and citizens into camps

• Zoot Suit Riots - Sailors beat up Mexican American youths in Los Angeles in a major race riot

• Kent State shooting - National Guard troops opened fire on students protesting the war

(T/F) After World War II, the U.S. became a significant global "super power," challenged only by the USSR (Soviet Union)

• True

• False

The permanent, peacetime, defensive military alliance the US joined right after WWII is ...?

• NAFTA

• NATO

• United Nations (UN)

• Trans-Pacific Partnership

The GI Bill led most directly to which of the following?

• the Cold War

• the growth of suburbs

• World War II

• the 2nd Red Scare