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Great Depression & WWII Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What event matches these dates: 1929-1939?

a)

World War II

b)

World War I

c)

Great Depression

d)

Cold War

2.

"This Depression, the worst is over. Don't worry!"

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Harry S Truman

d)

Herbert Hoover

3.

"Here is my plan to help Americans get through this Depression. I am here to help."

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Harry S Truman

d)

Herbert Hoover

4.

The name given to the programs developed to bring the United States out of the Depression.

a)

New Deal

b)

Fair Wages

c)

Get America Moving Again

d)

Strong Economy

5.

Which event is considered to be the "start" of the Great Depression?

a)

World War I

b)

Overproduction

c)

Stock Market Crash of 1929

d)

World War II

6.

On Black Tuesday, the prices plummeted and millions of dollars were lost, which lead to businesses shutting down and people losing jobs.

a)

New Deal

b)

Isolationism

c)

Stock Market Crash of 1929

d)

Pearl Harbor

7.

What causes the Great Depression to end?

a)

New Deal programs

b)

Start of WWII

c)

End of WWI

d)

Pearl Harbor

8.

This event is considered to "start" WWII

a)

Germany invading Great Britain

b)

Italy invading Russia

c)

Germany invading Poland

d)

Japan bombing Pearl Harbor

9.

What event matches these dates: 1939-1945?

a)

Great Depression

b)

World War I

c)

Cold War

d)

World War II

10.

Which countries were on the Allied side?

a)

Great Britain

b)

Russia

c)

United States

d)

China

e)

Italy

11.

Germany, Italy & Japan were called the ______________________.

a)

Allied Powers

b)

Axis Powers

c)

Central Powers

d)

Triple Entente

12.

How did the Treaty of Versailles help start WWII?

a)

Germany was blamed for WWI

b)

Germany had to pay billions in war damages

c)

Great Britain received Belgium

d)

Germany had to reduces it's military

13.

A government were one person holds all the power, there is no individual freedom & racism is strong.

a)

Isolationism

b)

Democracy

c)

Socialism

d)

Fascism

14.

Germany, Italy & Japan all had which kind of government?

a)

Isolationism

b)

Democracy

c)

Socialism

d)

Fascism

15.

A national policy of remaining apart from the political and

economic affairs of other nations.

a)

Fascism

b)

New Deal

c)

Isolationism

d)

Socialism

16.

The US had a policy of isolationism because:

a)

US had great losses in WWI and did not want a repeat

b)

The Great Depression

c)

The Allied Powers refused to let them join

d)

Congress would not approve going to war

17.

What event caused the US to join WWII?

a)

Sinking of the Lusitania

b)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

c)

Germany invading Poland

d)

Zimmerman Telegram

18.

What was the response of the US to Pearl Harbor?

a)

Joined WWII on the Allied side

b)

Joined WWII on the Axis side

c)

Sent thousands of Japanese Americans into Internment camps

d)

Sent thousands of Jews into concentration camps

19.

Hitler's goal was to have military control over all of Europe.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The state-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II.

a)

Japanese Internment Camps

b)

Holocaust

c)

Prisoners of War

d)

Arminian Genocide

21.

Jews were the only people who died in the Holocaust.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of French coastline referred to as Normandy.

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Atomic Bombs

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of Midway

23.

Many Allied soldiers were wounded and died trying to search the beaches on D-Day

a)

True

b)

False

24.

What fronts was WWII fought on?

a)

Africa

b)

Europe

c)

Pacific

d)

South America

25.

Why did the US drop two atomic bombs on Japan?

a)

They wanted to show Germany how much military force it had

b)

They wanted to make sure Italy would not continue to fight

c)

So Japan would surrender without an US invasion

d)

So Great Britain would stop bombing Poland

26.

How many atomic bombs did the US drop?

a)

3

b)

1

c)

2

d)

0

27.

What was the Japanese response to the US bombing?

a)

They surrendered and WWII was officially over

b)

They kept fighting and the US had to invade Japan

c)

Japan recovered from the bombing and eventually stopped fighting on their own

d)

The US felt so bad for dropping the bombs, they stopped fighting

28.
a)

Democracy

b)

Socialism

c)

Propaganda

d)

Fascism