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Unit 10 Great Depression and WW2

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was a main cause of the Great Depression?

a)

the Stock Market crash of 1965

b)

Spike in employment and production

c)

The Stock Market crash of 1929

d)

Deflation

2.

Makeshift towns that consisted of lower class people living in shacks were called...

a)

Movervilles

b)

Tiny Towns

c)

Slackshacks

d)

Shantytowns

3.

Which economic class suffered the most during the Great Depression?

a)

Middle Class

b)

Lower Class

c)

Upper Class

d)

Middle Lower Class

4.

Rural areas suffered heavily in the Great Depression where?

a)

Gambling

b)

Industry

c)

Housing

d)

Farming

5.

How many farms were foreclosed during the height of the Great Depression?

a)

400,000

b)

50,000

c)

1,500,000

d)

15,000

6.

Who was the Republican candidate in the 1932 election?

a)

Charles Curtis

b)

James Harbor

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Franklin D Roosevelt

7.

Who was the Democrat nominee and winner of the Election of 1932?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Thomas E. Dewey

c)

Al Smith

d)

Calvin Coolidge

8.

What were the three R's of the New Deal?

a)

Replace, Reform, and Reprotect

b)

Relief, Recovery, and Reform

c)

Rationalize, Reform, and Recover

d)

Resurrect, Reform, and Relief

9.

Which R included programs to help people through the depression?

a)

Relief

b)

Recovery

c)

Reform

10.

Which R changed legislation to help with the depression and moved to repeal prohibition?

a)

Relief

b)

Recovery

c)

Reform

11.

Which R gave businesses and banks a chance to get back on their feet?

a)

Recovery

b)

Relief

c)

Reform

12.

Who was the Democrat candidate and winner of the Election of 1936?

a)

Thomas E. Dewey

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Landon

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

13.

Who was the Republican candidate for the Election of 1936?

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Landon

c)

Franklin D Roosevelt

d)

Thomas E. Dewey

14.

What was the 21st amendment?

a)

Repeal of Prohibition

b)

Enactment of Prohibition

c)

Women rights to Vote

d)

No president can serve more then two terms

15.

What government organisations were founded in the Second Hundred Days?

a)

NRA, WPA, Forgotten Man Act

b)

New Immigrants, WPA, No Child Left Behind

c)

WPA, No Child Left Behind, Forgotten Man Act

d)

Social Security, WPA, and Wagner Act

16.

When the Supreme Court defeated 7 New deal Reforms, what did FDR do in the "Court Packing Scandal"?

a)

Resigned as President

b)

Created the Social Security Fund

c)

Reappointed 6 new judges

d)

Attempted to overthrow the Supreme Court

17.

What was wrong with the League of Nations after WW1?

a)

Nobody followed the rules of the league of nations.

b)

Nobody banded and worked together to create peace

c)

The U.S. refused to join

d)

It was too powerful and had to be overthrown.

18.

Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union during the WW1-WW2 era?

a)

Vladimir Putin

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Nikita Khrushchev

d)

Vladimir Lenin

19.

What was Adolf Hitlers occupancy before being a dictator?

a)

History Major

b)

Politics Major

c)

Cult Leader

d)

Failed Artist

20.

What was Hitlers goal as Dictator?

a)

Run his country smoothly and keep to themselves

b)

Eradicate Russia

c)

Kill the Jewish Race and Rule the World

d)

Make every country leader an Allie

21.

At the beginning of WW2 where did America stand in the War?

a)

Join the war to defeat Germany and the U.S.S.R.

b)

Isolationism

c)

Support Russia and Germany in taking over the War

d)

Attack Japan

22.

What major event brought the U.S. into WW2?

a)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

b)

Fall of France

c)

Concentration Camp discovery

d)

Germans attack on the Soviet Union

23.

When did the war in Europe end?

a)

June 25, 1960

b)

May 30, 1957

c)

May 8, 1945

d)

September 2, 1945

24.

When was the V-J day?

a)

September 2, 1950

b)

September 2, 1945

c)

January 3, 1940

d)

August 6, 1945

25.

What two types of camps were created by Nazi Germany to contain Jewish people?

a)

Concentration and Slaughter

b)

Annihilate and Concentration

c)

Concentration and Execution

d)

Concentration and Extermination