WorksheetsGreat Depression Worldwide
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is the organization that buys and sells stock in the USA?
Boston Stock Market
Philadelphia Stock Market
New York Stock Exchange
Detroit Stock Market
Who is the middleman that arranges stock purchases and sells for a stockholder?
stock broker
bank owner
cashier
stock forger
If a person wants to sell their stock, what do they or their broker have to find?
a person who works for the stock corporation
someone who will buy the stock
a member of the Boston Stock Market
a member of the Treasury Department
In October 1929, the stock market collapsed when everyone tried to sell stock and no one would buy. What was this disastrous day called?
Red Monday
Blue Monday
Red Tuesday
Black Tuesday
Where did people go to get money when they lost all of the money in the stock market?
homes
banks
corporations
New York Stock Exchange
As stock values dropped, so did the overall value of the _______.
house
corporation
government
store
With the stock market collapse in 1929, how much money in invested stocks and corporations was lost in America?
1 billion dollars
40 billion dollars
5 million dollars
9 million dollars
When everyone tried to withdraw all of their savings from banks, what happened to many banks in America?
the banks closed permanently
the banks closed for 2 days
the banks made a profit
the banks received help from the German government
What are the 3 major events that caused the Great Depression
Pick 3
collapse of stock market
End of WWI
closing of banks
closing of many businesses
The worldwide depression was spread when countries put a large tax on foreign products coming into the country to be sold. What is this tax called?
factors
investments
tariffs
collectives
What was the percentage of unemployment in US of working men?
25%
10%
5%
100%
One effect of the depression was the spread of ____around the world.
oligarchies
democracies
dictatorships
Who promised to restore Germany's economy and rebuild its army during the Great Depression?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Albrecht Durer
Hans Carl
What did the Japanese government do after the army took over in 1937?
Japan created an alliance with the USA
Japan began building an atomic bomb
Japan invaded the Pacific Ocean
Japan invaded Manchuria China
Stalin created a system where the government determined everything in the economy. What kind of communist economy is this called?
Democratic Economy
Planned Economy
Capitalist Economy
Free Market Economy
The rapid industrialization of factories and collectivization of farmland of small peasant farms under government control was the focus of Joseph Stalin's __________.
10 Year Plan
Invasion of Germany
dictatorship of Europe
Five Year Plan
What term was used to describe Stalin's mass executions of people in the Soviet Union during the 1930s.
The Final Exit
The Great Purge
The Invasion of the Soviet Union
The reorganization of Boshevik Russia
Who killed 20 million people by starving most of them or sending them to die in the gulags?
Stalin
Hitler
Mussolini
Franco
