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Great Depression Worldwide

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the organization that buys and sells stock in the USA?

a)

Boston Stock Market

b)

Philadelphia Stock Market

c)

New York Stock Exchange

d)

Detroit Stock Market

2.

Who is the middleman that arranges stock purchases and sells for a stockholder?

a)

stock broker

b)

bank owner

c)

cashier

d)

stock forger

3.

If a person wants to sell their stock, what do they or their broker have to find?

a)

a person who works for the stock corporation

b)

someone who will buy the stock

c)

a member of the Boston Stock Market

d)

a member of the Treasury Department

4.

In October 1929, the stock market collapsed when everyone tried to sell stock and no one would buy. What was this disastrous day called?

a)

Red Monday

b)

Blue Monday

c)

Red Tuesday

d)

Black Tuesday

5.

Where did people go to get money when they lost all of the money in the stock market?

a)

homes

b)

banks

c)

corporations

d)

New York Stock Exchange

6.

As stock values dropped, so did the overall value of the _______.

a)

house

b)

corporation

c)

government

d)

store

7.

With the stock market collapse in 1929, how much money in invested stocks and corporations was lost in America?

a)

1 billion dollars

b)

40 billion dollars

c)

5 million dollars

d)

9 million dollars

8.

When everyone tried to withdraw all of their savings from banks, what happened to many banks in America?

a)

the banks closed permanently

b)

the banks closed for 2 days

c)

the banks made a profit

d)

the banks received help from the German government

9.

What are the 3 major events that caused the Great Depression

Pick 3

a)

collapse of stock market

b)

End of WWI

c)

closing of banks

d)

closing of many businesses

10.

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?

a)

factors

b)

investments

c)

tariffs

d)

collectives

11.

What was the percentage of unemployment in US of working men?

a)

25%

b)

10%

c)

5%

d)

100%

12.

One effect of the depression was the spread of ____around the world.

a)

oligarchies

b)

democracies

c)

dictatorships

13.

Who promised to restore Germany's economy and rebuild its army during the Great Depression? 

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Albrecht Durer

d)

Hans Carl

14.

What did the Japanese government do after the army took over in 1937?

a)

Japan created an alliance with the USA

b)

Japan began building an atomic bomb

c)

Japan invaded the Pacific Ocean

d)

Japan invaded Manchuria China

15.

Stalin created a system where the government determined everything in the economy. What kind of communist economy is this called?

a)

Democratic Economy

b)

Planned Economy

c)

Capitalist Economy

d)

Free Market Economy

16.

The rapid industrialization of factories and collectivization of farmland of small peasant farms under government control was the focus of Joseph Stalin's __________.

a)

10 Year Plan

b)

Invasion of Germany

c)

dictatorship of Europe

d)

Five Year Plan

17.

What term was used to describe Stalin's mass executions of people in the Soviet Union during the 1930s.

a)

The Final Exit

b)

The Great Purge

c)

The Invasion of the Soviet Union

d)

The reorganization of Boshevik Russia

18.

Who killed 20 million people by starving most of them or sending them to die in the gulags?

a)

Stalin

b)

Hitler

c)

Mussolini

d)

Franco