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JMillerUnit 6 Review
Review for Great Depression and WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| candidate for the 1928 election that won with the slogan "Two cars in every garage" | Herbert Hoover |
| event that occurred on October 29, 1929; "Black Tuesday" | stock market crash |
| causes of the Depression | overproduction of goods and services; high tariffs; decline in agriculture; no banking regulations |
| group of people to march on Washington to demand money from the government | Bonus Army |
| name of the policies that FDR campaigned on; believed that the government should help the people | New Deal |
| government agency created to solve the banking crisis by insuring people's money | FDIC |
| government agency that was created to regulate the stock market and avoid future problems in the stock market | SEC |
| government program that was designed to provide jobs and electricity | TVA |
| government program that tried to solve the problem of agricultural surpluses | AAA |
| critics of FDR's New Deal | Francis Townsend, Charles Coughlin, Huey Long |
| book that was written about the Dust Bowl | Grapes of Wrath |
| branch of the government that resisted the efforts of the New Deal that strongest | Supreme Court |
| investing in the stock market with borrowed money | buying on margin |
| homeless camps outside of major cities | Hoovervilles |
| provided an escape for most people during the depression | movies and radio |
| name of the policies that European leaders used to try and contain the aggressive politics of Germany | appeasement |
| type of government in Germany and Italy after WWI | fascist |
| nation that Germany attacked that began WWII | Poland |
| year that WWII began | 1939 |
| date of the attack on Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| turning point of the European war | Stalingrad |
| turning point of the Pacific war | Midway |
| D-Day invasion occurred in | France |
| became President after the death of FDR; made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan | Harry Truman |
| systematic elimination of the Jewish populations of Europe | Final Solution |
| name given to the drought and hard times that hit the Great Plains | Dust Bowl |
| government program designed to provide pensions to the elderly | Social Security |
| leader of Russia during WWII | Joseph Stalin |
| leader of Great Britain during WWII | Winston Churchill |
| leader of Japan during WWII | Emperor Hirohito |
| leader of US during most of WWII | FDR |
| leader of Germany during WWII | Hitler |
| the Allied commander that coordinated D-Day | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| date of the D-Day invasion | June 6, 1944 |
| name of the secret project to build the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| cities where the atomic bomb was dropped | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| name given to the mass killings of Jews in WWII | Holocaust |
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