Mr. WaxerGreat Depression & WWII – Study GuideU.S. History

Great Depression:

  1. What was the key factor that helped lead to both the Great Depression and the recession that began in 2008?
  2. What is a recession?
  3. Why did banks close during the Great Depression?
  4. What do historians credit with ending the Great Depression?
  5. What type of music was brought to northern cities from southern African Americans?
  6. Who were the main targets of the KKK? What was their goal(s)
  7. Henry Ford did not “invent” the assembly line, but he did ______.
  8. Throughout most of the 1930s, how did most Americans feel about the economy?
  9. What was the immediate effect of drastically falling stock prices in last October, 1929?
  10. What was the major environmental crisis during the 1930s?
  11. What did the 21st Amendment do?
  12. What was the immediate result when peoples’ wages were cut, or they became unemployed?
  13. How did President Hoover plan to end the Great Depression?
  14. Which group of people were the hardest hit by the Great Depression?
  15. Why did peoples’ mental and physical health decline?
  16. What were the goals of bringing an end to Prohibition?
  17. What was one “dramatic symbol of hope” built during the Great Depression?
  18. Why did the American people like President Roosevelt so much?
  19. What did Roosevelt promise the American people to win the 1932 election?
  20. Why did FDR declare a “bank holiday”?
  21. What did the New Deal fail to address/fix?
  22. What is a demagogue?
  23. What is known as the “black cabinet”?
  24. Why did many people criticize the New Deal?
  25. In the 1930s why did people go to the movies?
  26. Describe FDR’s First Hundred Days.
  27. How did FDR try to help business?
  28. How did FDR’s programs help farmers?
  29. What was the Second New Deal?

WWII:

  1. What did Italy, Germany and Japan all have in common in the 1930s?
  2. Why did the U.S. enter WWII?
  3. Which country did Hitler invade after Czechoslovakia?
  4. Which country took over Manchuria in 1932?
  5. What is blitzkrieg?
  6. What did the Neutrality Acts do?
  7. Which two countries/leaders signed a Non-Aggression Pact with each other?
  8. Which countries made up the Axis Powers? Allied powers?
  9. What was the Selective Service Act?
  10. How did the U.S. government finance the war?
  11. What was the Battle of the Bulge?
  12. What was the “final solution to the Jewish question”?
  13. What was the goal of the Manhattan Project?
  14. Why did Japan ultimately surrender?
  15. What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII?
  16. What were women expected to do after the men returned from war?
  17. What are “code talkers”
  18. What was D-Day?
  19. What are kamikazes?
  20. What two cities were bombed to finally end WWII?
  21. What is island hopping?