Unit 7 Exam - National and International Conflict

Match the following:

• FDIC & SEC

• Major causes of the Great Depression

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Winner of the 1932 electon

• Herbert Hoover

• Believed charities should help the unemployed

• farmers on the Plains

• Who suffered most from the Dust Bowl

• overproduction & excessive debt

• Parts of the New Deal

When FDR won a significant landslide in the 1932 election, it was clear that...

• he would pack the Supreme Court

• he was blamed for not helping the unemployed

• The Great Depression altered Americans political preferences

• most voters had lost interest in politics

What was the common goal of the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?

• they both regulated interest rates

• they prevented the recurrence of conditions that contributed to the Great Depression

• they allowed consumers to access credit

• they helped low income citizens by redistributing income

What was the name given to shacks built in public places for the unemployed?

• Hoovervilles

• Bonus Army Town

• Dust Bowl

• Camps

Match the following

• FDIC

• Did not get their bonus early

• Bonus Army

• Blamed for the suffering of the poor

• stabilizing the banks

• Insured savers' deposits

• Hoover

• FDR's first priority when taking office

• Social Security

• Provided Americans with unemployment insurance & pensions for the elderly

Select ALL of the effects of the Great Depression on the economy:

• unemployment

• bank failures

• foreclosures

• bull market

By failing to regulate the stock market during the 1920s, the federal government...

• contributed to the start of the Great Depression.

• supported the Bear marcket.

• caused the Dust Bowl.

• prevented the excessive use of credit.

Why did FDR declare a bank holiday early in his first term in office?

• To provide bank managers with a time to meet.

• To have time to develop a plan to stabilize the banks.

• To instruct banks to foreclose on homes and businesses where loans were unpaid.

• To reward bank employees for their hard work.

Select all that apply. What events during WWII raise issues of morality?

• Women joining the workforce

• Treatment of Japanese Americans

• United States learns about the Holocaust

• The use of two atomic bombs

What was the purpose of Executive Order 9066?

• To relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps during WWII

• To issue the Bonus Army their pension early

• To use atomic bombs on Japan

• To begin the draft