The Great Depression and WII

Question 1

What is Wall Street?

Answer 1

The main place in New York City where stocks are bought and sold.

Question 2

Define stocks.

Answer 2

Shares of a company that people can buy to own part of the business.

Question 3

What happened during the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

Answer 3

The value of stocks dropped a lot, causing many people to lose money.

Question 4

List some causes for the Great Depression.

Answer 4

• Bank failures
• Too much debt
• Stock market crash
• Less trade

Question 5

Who was President of the U.S. when the Great Depression started?

Answer 5

President Herbert Hoover

Question 6

What were Hoovervilles?

Answer 6

Shantytowns where homeless people lived during the Great Depression.

Question 7

What was the Dust Bowl?

Answer 7

A time when huge dust storms ruined farms in the U.S.

Question 8

Who were the Okies?

Answer 8

Farmers from Oklahoma who moved west to find work during the Dust Bowl.

Question 9

What significant event occurred in the Election of 1932?

Answer 9

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president during the Great Depression.

Question 10

Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?

Answer 10

A good President during the Great Depression.

Question 11

What was the New Deal?

Answer 11

FDR’s plan to help people get jobs and fix the economy.

Question 12

What was the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 12

The peace treaty that ended World War I and punished Germany.

Question 13

Define economic depression.

Answer 13

A time when many people lose jobs, and the economy is very bad.

Question 14

What does political turmoil refer to?

Answer 14

When a country has big problems in its government.

Question 15

What are war reparations?

Answer 15

Money Germany had to pay after World War I for the damage it caused.

Question 16

What is the War Guilt-Clause?

Answer 16

Part of the Treaty of Versailles that said Germany was to blame for WWI.

Question 17

What does post-war debt structure refer to?

Answer 17

Many countries owed money after WWI, making recovery hard.

Question 18

What is American isolationism?

Answer 18

The U.S. wanted to stay out of world problems and wars.

Question 19

What is the Nazi Party?

Answer 19

The political group led by Hitler that ruled Germany.

Question 20

What was Kristallnacht?

Answer 20

Night when Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.

Question 21

What is the Rhineland?

Answer 21

Area Germany took back, breaking the peace treaty.

Question 22

What was the Munich Conference?

Answer 22

A meeting where leaders let Hitler take land to avoid war.

Question 23

What does appeasement mean?

Answer 23

Giving in to an enemy to avoid fighting.

Question 24

Who were the Axis Powers?

Answer 24

• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

Question 25

Define Blitzkrieg.

Answer 25

“Lightning war” – a fast and powerful attack used by Germany.

Question 26

What is the Maginot Line?

Answer 26

A line of defense built by France to stop Germany (but it didn’t work).

Question 27

What was The Blitz?

Answer 27

Germany’s bombing of Britain in World War II.

Question 28

What was Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 28

Germany’s failed invasion of the Soviet Union.

Question 29

What was Stalingrad?

Answer 29

A major battle where the Soviet Union stopped Germany.

Question 30

What was Pearl Harbor?

Answer 30

A surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. in Hawaii.

Question 31

What happened to the Arizona?

Answer 31

A U.S. battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor; now a memorial.

Question 32

What does Arsenal of Democracy refer to?

Answer 32

The U.S. made a lot of weapons and supplies for the Allies.

Question 33

What were the new roles for women during WWII?

Answer 33

Women worked in factories while men were at war.

Question 34

Who is Rosie the Riveter?

Answer 34

A symbol of women working in factories during WWII.

Question 35

What were Japanese Internment Camps?

Answer 35

Places where Japanese Americans were forced to live during WWII.

Question 36

What were the new opportunities for Blacks during the war?

Answer 36

African Americans got more jobs and chances during the war.

Question 37

What was D-Day?

Answer 37

The day Allied troops invaded France to fight Nazi Germany.

Question 38

What was The Battle of the Bulge?

Answer 38

Germany’s last big attack during WWII, which failed.

Question 39

What happened in the Election of 1944?

Answer 39

FDR was elected president for the fourth time.

Question 40

Who is Harry S. Truman?

Answer 40

Became president after FDR died; ended WWII.

Question 41

What was the Holocaust?

Answer 41

The killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis.

Question 42

What does island-hopping refer to?

Answer 42

U.S. strategy to capture islands in the Pacific on the way to Japan.

Question 43

What was Midway?

Answer 43

A major naval battle where the U.S. beat Japan.

Question 44

What was Iwo Jima?

Answer 44

A tough island battle where many U.S. troops fought and died.

Question 45

Who were the Kamikaze?

Answer 45

Japanese pilots who crashed planes into U.S. ships on purpose.

Question 46

What was The Manhattan Project?

Answer 46

The secret U.S. project to build atomic bombs.

Question 47

What happened in Hiroshima?

Answer 47

The first city where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb.

Question 48

What happened in Nagasaki?

Answer 48

The second city hit by an atomic bomb; Japan surrendered soon after.