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WorksheetsPolitics and Economics of the 1920s-1930s
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is an Economic Depression?
A period of rapid decline in the manufacturing and selling of textiles
A sustained long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies
A period in which a nations entire economic system fails
A sustained period of huge economic growth and inflation
The Great Depression only hurt the United States economy.
True
False
While the Stock Market Crash was detrimental many historians do not believe it was the only factor that led to the Great Depression. One of the other major factors is...
Bank Runs or Panics
Individuals buying products increasingly on credit
A decline in the housing and construction market
All of the above
When consumers begin spending less and production slows what cost will business owners often cut.
The cost of their products
Property cost by selling locations
Labor cost
Transportation cost
Who was elected president in 1932 with the promise of providing the American people a New Deal with the goal of improving the economic crisis
Teddy Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
What was the New Deal?
A series of public works projects and government programs designed to target specific issues with social and economic life in the U.S.
A series of promises and executive order designed to boost consumer confidence and increase spending
A plan to completely change the system of government and economics in the United States
None of the Above
What was the Dustbowl?
A new sports game that became popular in the state of Illinois
A period of extreme drought in the new state of California
A increase in the manufacturing of iron which led to rust polluting the soil
A period of intense drought combined with severe dust storms caused by over farming in the Midwest
What method of public outreach did FDR use to address the American people and build back confidence amongst them?
His Bully Pulpit
The newly invented telegram
Personal correspondence to thousands of Americans
Radio broadcasts called "Fire Side Chats"
In the 1920-30s what form of political behavior rose in Europe that was marked by obsessive community decline, humiliation, victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity
Communism
Capitalism
Fascism
Socialism
In the 1930s what two nations in Europe saw an increase in fascist behavior and power in government?
Ireland and Switzerland
Germany and Italy
Japan and Germany
The USSR and France
Why did individuals in Germany move away from democracy and flock to fascism in the early 1930s?
Adolf Hitler was a very convincing public speaker
The Weimar Republic had dissolved
WWI and the Great Depression led to a loss of confidence in the government
Fascist Italy invaded and occupied Germany
What is Hyper Inflation?
A measure of the pace of rising prices for goods and services
Out of control and rapid general price increases
A rapid decline in the amount of currency within circulation
Blowing up a balloon really fast that you get dizzy
Which act passed by parliament in Germany granted Hitler emergency powers, essentially turning him into a dictator?
Order 66
The Versailles Passage Act
The Checks and Balance Act
The Enabling Act
What is the term for the pseudoscientific advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits.
Natural Selection
Eugenics
Aryanism
Social Darwinism
What term is given to the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities.
Psychoanalysis
Studium Caput
Phrenology
Astrology
Leader of the NSDAP who became a dictator in 1933
Josef Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Michinomiya Hirohito
The promotion and interest of one person or one state of people above all others, often characterized by extreme hatred or prejudice towards others
Hyper Inflation
Propaganda
Paramilitary Action
Ultra nationalism
Arson event that triggered parliament to pass the enabling act fearing a communist invasion in Germany
Invasion of Poland
Night of Broken Glass
Night of Long Knives
Reichstag Fire
