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WorksheetsWall Street Crash and its impacts Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How many seats did the Nazis win in the elections of 1928?
a)
12
b)
230
c)
2
d)
33
2.
How many seats did the Nazis win in the July election of 1932?
a)
230
b)
33
c)
12
d)
2
3.
What happened to share prices on the American stock market in October 1929?
a)
People began to 'panic-sell' their shares, causing share prices to plummet rapidly
b)
They went up suddenly, causing more and more people to become share holders
c)
Nothing - they stayed the same
d)
They went down slightly
4.
How many shares were sold on 'Black Thursday', 24th October 1929?
a)
13 million
b)
13 thousand
c)
13
d)
1300
5.
Compared to how much money the US government spent in a year, how much more was lost in three days during the Wall Street Crash?
a)
12x as much
b)
5x as much
c)
2x as much
d)
8x as much
6.
Why did the Wall Street Crash create a depression all over the world, not just the US? Select as many answers as apply.
a)
The US stopped trading as much with other countries
b)
Many businesses in other countries also had investments in the US stockmarket
c)
Other countries felt sorry for them, and closed down their businesses out of solidarity
d)
The US had lent money to every other country
7.
Why was Germany hit worst of all?
a)
Stresemann's Dawes and Young Plans had left Germany dependant on US loans
b)
The Weimar Republic had invested all of their tax income in the US stock market
c)
They had the most trade with the US
d)
They hadn't sold their own shares quickly enough
8.
Who was the chancellor of the Weimar Republic at the time of the Great Depression in Germany?
a)
Heinrich Bruning
b)
Freidrich Ebert
c)
Gustav Stresemann
d)
Paul von Hindenburg
9.
He was nicknamed the Hunger Chancellor - why?
a)
His solution to the crisis was to raise taxes and cut benefits, leading to poverty
b)
He was always on a diet
c)
He was previously the minister for agriculture, and had overseen the worst harvests in living memory
d)
He started rationing food supplies to try and protect the economy
10.
How many German businesses closed down between 1930-32?
a)
50000
b)
20000
c)
70
d)
1 million
11.
How many people in Germany were unemployed, according to official figures, in 1933? (the real number was probably even higher!)
a)
6.1 million
b)
3 million
c)
20 million
d)
10 million
12.
Bruning became increasingly reliant on presidential decrees using Article 48. There were just 5 of these in 1930. How many were there in 1932?
a)
66
b)
44
c)
55
d)
33
13.
Name one of the major German banks that crashed in 1931.
a)
Danat
b)
Barclays
c)
Deutschebank
d)
Reichsbank
14.
How many more voters did the KPD (Communist Party) gain between 1931 and 1932?
a)
1 million
b)
6 million
c)
600
d)
2000
15.
What percentage were wages in 1932 of what they had been in 1928?
a)
0.7
b)
0.2
c)
0.8
d)
0.4
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