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WorksheetsThe Depression (1930's) and WWII
Total questions: 71
Worksheet time: 43mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How many terms did FDR serve as President of the United States?
a)
2
b)
6
c)
4
2.
What was the name given to the time when FDR would speak over the radio to people about the Depression?
a)
TV talks
b)
Fireside Chats
3.
During the first 100 days FDR worked to pass this to create jobs and make the US survive the Depression?
a)
New Deal
b)
Treaty of Versailles
c)
Constitution
4.
The Civilian Conservation Corp or CCC was an organization created during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal. It created jobs for people who didn't have work. What kind of work did people do as part of the CCC?
a)
building roads, bridges, and dams
b)
constructing schools and libraries
c)
creating cheap hydroelectricity
d)
maintaining state and national forests
5.
Why did people like those in the picture have to line up for free food in the 1930s?
a)
most people had money in the thirties, but few were poor and got free food
b)
the war left people with no money to spend
c)
they were on a lunch break from their jobs in factories
d)
the Great Depression left many without jobs or money
6.
Which of these economic effects did the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s have on America?
a)
stock prices rose, and people started to make more money
b)
People packed up and moved east the the Great Plains
c)
Farmers in the Great Plains planted more crops after the dust storms.
d)
Crops in the Great Plains failed, and farmers went bankrupt.
7.
What was the Great Depression?
a)
A long, hard period where industries did not grow and many people were out of work
b)
when a great deal of people are depressed
c)
a period where great depressions in the Earth started to appear
8.
President during the Great Depression who DID NOT believe in direct relief to citizens
a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
c)
Mrs. Craft :)
9.
Idea that FDR could increase the number of Supreme Court Justices
a)
court packing plan
b)
public works administration
c)
civilian conservation corps
10.
what is it called when the stock market is doing well and prices are up
a)
bull market
b)
bear market
c)
zebra market
11.
when banks would TEMPORARILY close so people couldn't go and withdrawal their money
a)
bank run
b)
bank holiday
c)
bank deposit
12.
when you don't worry about balancing the budget and you take out loans to pay for programs
a)
smart spending
b)
spending spree
c)
deficit spending
13.
the highest tax on imports in US history
a)
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
b)
Townshend Plan
c)
import tariff
14.
group of veterans who marched to the capital to get their promised $1,000 early
a)
Bonus Marchers
b)
Hoover vets
c)
strikebreakers
d)
protestors
15.
New Deal act that gave money to older citizens and the unemployed
a)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
b)
Civilian Conservation Corps
c)
Agriculture Adjustment Act
d)
Social Securities Act
16.
limited crop production to increase prices and reduce the surplus, was found to be unconstutional
a)
AAA
b)
CWA
c)
FDIC
d)
HOLC
17.
insured bank deposits up to a certain amount
a)
FDIC
b)
CCC
c)
PWA
d)
LOL
18.
How did the Wagner Act effect workers?
a)
Legalized labor unions
b)
Sent millions of dollars to states to put people to work
c)
Established jobs for African Americans
d)
Provided help for the elderly, disabled, and unemployed
19.
How did FDR stop the Supreme Court from overturning the New Deal?
a)
FDR threatened to impeach Justices
b)
Court stopped exchanging correspondence with FDR
c)
FDR planned to add new Justices to the Court
d)
FDR agreed to stop interfering with big business
20.
What established a federal minimum wage and a 40 hour work week?
a)
Fair Labor Standards Act
b)
Works Progress Administration
c)
Fair Labor Practices Commission
d)
Wagner Act
21.
How did the New Deal affect the US in the 1930s?
a)
Led to the end of the Depression
b)
Provided some economic relief
c)
Caused capitalism to collapse
d)
Caused extreme food shortages
22.
How did FDR want to regulate the stock market?
a)
Federal Trade Commission
b)
Securities and Exchange Commission
c)
National Recovery administration
d)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
23.
How did the federal government pay for the New Deal?
a)
Taxed alcohol and tobacco
b)
18th Amendment
c)
Used deficit spending
d)
Took money from organized crime
24.
Who would have been labeled a flapper?
a)
Person who made money in the stock market
b)
Progressive Woman in the 1920s
c)
African American who moved North
d)
Political who switched parties
25.
The Great Depression affected people's lives EXCEPT
a)
People were undernourished and birthrate fell
b)
Workers had their wages and hours cut
c)
Banks collapsed
d)
Women went around the country looking for handouts
26.
What was another underlying cause of the Great Depression?
a)
Unequal distribution of wealth
b)
Adoption of high federal income taxes
c)
Failure of American farmers to produce enough food
d)
Rapid increase in federal spending
27.
Which of the following MOST accurately depicts the plight of farmers in the 1920s?
a)
Enjoyed prosperity
b)
Maintained the same level of economic stability
c)
Suffered because Congress refused to pass programs to help
d)
Suffered because prices fell because of overproduction
28.
How were the Red Scare, National Origins Act, and the growth of the KKK all related?
a)
Encouraged assimilation of new immigrants
b)
Exploited fears about people who were considered Un-American
c)
Supported the goals of Women's Suffrage Movement
d)
Exhibited prejudice against African Americans
29.
These are the names given to people who sold alcohol illegally during prohibition
a)
Bootlegger
b)
Athlete
c)
Immigrant
d)
Fundamentalist
30.
What event in 1920 is significant for the relationship between science and religion?
a)
National Origins Act
b)
Red Scare
c)
Scopes Trial
d)
Harlem Renaissance
31.
What was a long term effect of Prohibition?
a)
Growth of economy
b)
Growth of organized crime
c)
End to alcoholism
d)
Rise of fundamentalism
32.
Why did African Americans migrate north in the early 1900s?
a)
Offers for free for farming
b)
Climate was better
c)
Looking for jobs and to escape discrimination
d)
Businesses were slowing down across the nation
33.
Sent money to states to put writers, artists, and actors to work
a)
Works Progress Administration
b)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
c)
Civilan Conservation Corps
d)
Tennessee Valley Authority
34.
Paid subsidies to farmers to take some land out of production
a)
Tennessee Valley Authority
b)
Civilian Conservation Corps
c)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
d)
Social Security Act
35.
Put young men to work building state parks and other projects
a)
Civilian Conservation Corps
b)
Works Progress Administration
c)
Social Security Act
d)
Tennessee Valley Authority
36.
Created electricity to power tens of thousands of homes
a)
Civilan Conservation Corps
b)
Agricultural Adjustment Program
c)
Tennessee Valley Authority
d)
Social Security Act
37.
Insurance created for the unemployed, disabled, elderly, and dependent children
a)
Tennessee Valley Authority
b)
Agricultural Adjustment Program
c)
Social Security Act
d)
Civilian Conservation Corps
38.
Dictators often used __________ to get their citizens on board with their policies/ideas.
a)
Negotiations
b)
Radio Shows
c)
Propaganda
d)
Violence
39.
______________ was the dictator in Italy during the war.
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Mussolini
c)
Hitler
d)
Stalin
40.
The failure of this weak peace-keeping organization also led to the rise of dictators.
a)
The Grand Alliance
b)
The League of Nations
c)
The European League
d)
The Western Alliance
41.
Giving into someone's demands to maintain the peace is known as what? (I.e. Neville Chamberlain to Hitler)
a)
strategy
b)
encroachment
c)
deceit
d)
appeasement
42.
Under the Treaty of Versailles, who was blamed for starting WWI? (Mainly a cause for WW2)
a)
Germany
b)
Austria
c)
Serbia
d)
France
43.
What style of warfare did the Germans use to quickly conquer territory?
a)
Donner und Blitzen
b)
Blitzkraft
c)
Blitzkrieg
d)
Blitzen Trappen
44.
What is the term used to describe Nazi Germany’s systematic annihilation of European Jews?
a)
blitzkrieg
b)
the Holocaust
c)
Kristallnacht
d)
the Manhattan Project
45.
Who was the British Prime Minister during most of the war
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Adolf Hitler
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Basil Fawlty
46.
desire to remain separated in the affairs or interest of other groups
a)
avoidance
b)
isolationism
c)
stalemate
d)
internationalism
47.
Hitler's political party
a)
Fascist
b)
Nazis
c)
Socialists
d)
Republicans
48.
The turning point on the Eastern Front.
a)
Midway
b)
Invasion of Sicily
c)
El Alamein
d)
Stalingrad
49.
Where were Japanese Americans relocated after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
a)
concentration camps
b)
Internment camps
50.
Which of the following was NOT an Axis Power?
a)
Italy
b)
Soviet Union
c)
Germany
d)
Japan
51.
Which of the following was NOT an Allied Power during WWII?
a)
United States
b)
Great Britain
c)
France
d)
Italy
52.
What event led to the start of WWII?
a)
Germany invaded Poland
b)
Germany invaded Austria
c)
Germany formed an alliance with Italy
d)
Germany formed an alliance with Japan
53.
What was rationing?
a)
growing a garden to help with food supplies in your backyard
b)
donating money to the government to help in the war effort
c)
a practice of limiting the amount of food or resources people could buy
d)
used to show support of the war effort (usually posters or movies)
54.
Who were the first African-American fighter pilots?
a)
Tuskegee Boys
b)
Tuskegee Airmen
c)
Birmingham Airmen
d)
Tuskegee Tough Guys
55.
Which of the following was NOT a role of women during WWII?
a)
soldiers
b)
mechanics
c)
nurses
d)
pilots
56.
What event led to the US joining WWII?
a)
Germany invaded Poland.
b)
Germany sent Mexico a secret telegram.
c)
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
d)
Germany bombed Pearl Harbor.
57.
Which event occurred during October 29,1929
a)
Black Friday
b)
Black Tuesday
c)
Black Thursday
d)
Black Wednesday
58.
What is military aggression?
a)
no weaponry
b)
War like acts against other nations
c)
USA being nuetral
d)
killing anyone who went against it
59.
What three countries were a cause of WWII?
a)
Japan, England, Italy
b)
Japan, Italy, Germany
c)
Russia, Japan, Germany
d)
Europe, Japan, Czechoslovakia
60.
Why was the League of Nations weak?
a)
no raw materials
b)
Russia signed the Treaty of Versailles
c)
weaponry was banned
d)
Some nations like the USA didn't join
61.
The two sides that fought in World War II were the
a)
Allied & Central Powers
b)
Allied & Axis Powers
c)
Central & Axis Powers
d)
Allied & Associated Powers
62.
What were the two U.S. Presidents during World War II?
a)
Eisenhower and Truman
b)
FDR and Eisenhower
c)
Trump and Washington
d)
FDR and Truman
63.
In the 1930s, Congress attempted to avoid the situations that led to United States involvement in World War I by
a)
enacting a peacetime draft law
b)
passing a series of neutrality acts
c)
authorizing the deportation of American Communist Party members
d)
relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps
64.
Why was the United States called the “arsenal of democracy” in 1940?
a)
The leaders in the democratic nations of Europe were educated in the United States.
b)
Most of the battles to defend worldwide democracy took place on American soil.
c)
The United States supervised elections in European nations before the war.
d)
The United States provided much of the weaponry needed to fight the Axis powers.
65.
During World War II, many Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were relocated to detention centers primarily because they
a)
were known spies for Japan
b)
were seen as a security threat
c)
refused to serve in the United States military
d)
expressed their support for Italy and Germany
66.
What did FDR say about December 7, 1941?
a)
He said that it was a perfect day for a wedding.
b)
He said that it was his birthday.
c)
He said that it was a date that would live in infamy.
d)
He said that it was the deadline for Congress to pass the 15th Amendment.
67.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
a)
Hitler's elite army pilots
b)
African American pilots who flew successful missions during WWI
c)
A group of Civil Rights activists
d)
The first African American military aviators in the US Armed Forces
68.
Who began working in the factories when the soldiers went off to war?
a)
the elderly
b)
Japanese Americans
c)
women
d)
children
69.
What ended the Great Depression?
a)
The New Deal
b)
World War II
c)
Alphabet Agencies
d)
The spread of Commmunism
70.
A prison camp for holding people who were thought to be dangerous to the ruling group
a)
Concentration camp
b)
Prison
c)
Court
d)
Timeout
71.
"lightning war"; swift attacks launched by Germany in WWII
a)
Kristallnacht
b)
Blitzkrieg
c)
Trench warfare
d)
Chemical warfare
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