3rd Nine Weeks Benchmark Study Guide
*Use your interactive notebook & textbook (see Chapters 25-1/2 of 26) to answer the questions. The Benchmark Test is scheduled for Wednesday, March 4th.
*Be familiar with the following topics:
Chapter 25
Who was?
Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady, wife of FDR, “eyes and ears” for the President
Franklin D. Roosevelt – President of the US during the Great Depression and WWII
Dorothea Lange – Photographer during Great Depression, took pictures of migrant workers and people in the Dust Bowl
Herbert Hoover – President of the US at beginning of Great Depression, denied money to the Bonus Army, many blamed the depression on him
Oakies – people who left the Dust Bowl, manly from Oklahoma, who moved to California to find work, a term Californians used to describe dumb and lazy
What was?
The Court Packing controversy – FDR tried to increase the size of the Supreme Court to have more influence in getting New Deal relief programs passed. It did not work.
The Bonus Army – WWI vets that wanted their “bonus” check early, protested outside White House
The Brain Trust – a group of lawyers, economists, & social workers who worked with Roosevelt to develop programs to help pull the nation out of the Great Depression
CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps gave jobs to young men building public works projects
TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority built power plants and brought electricity to southern states.
SSA - Social Security Act was a New Deal program that guaranteed money for the elderly once they retired from their jobs.
Fireside Chats – Weekly radio addresses made by FDR to reassure the people during the Great Depression.
Dust Bowl – an area of the Great Plains that suffered drought and terrible conditions during the Great Depression.
Chapter 26
Who Was?
Adolf Hitler – leader of Germany during WWII
Joseph Stalin – leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
Hideki Tojo – military leader of Japan during WWII
Benito Mussolini – leader of Italy during WWII
Winston Churchill – leader of Great Britain during WWII
What was?
The Soviet-German Non-Aggressive Pact – an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union to not fight, but to split Poland…Hitler later broke this pact.
Lend-Lease Act – The act that allows the US to sell, lend, or lease weapons to any country we feel is VITAL to the defense of America
The Axis Powers – Germany, Italy, & Japan
The Allied Powers – Great Britain, Soviet Union, and eventually the US
The Munich Conference – The meeting between Hitler and the leaders of France & Great Britain where they gave in, or APPEASED him, by allowing him to have the Sudetenland
Maginot Line – a line of concrete bunkers set up along the German border from Belgium to Switzerland
Which Country?
Invaded Poland – Germany & the Soviet Union
Used Lend-Lease – Great Britain & eventually other Allied countries
Fascist - Italy
Nazi - German
Took the Rhineland and Sudetenland - Germany