Name: Unit 7 Test Review: The Great Depression, New Deal, & WWII 1) Describe the economy of the late 1920's: 2) How did wages for the AVERAGE AMERICAN worker compare to overall economic profits during the 1920's? 3) During the 1920's, by what method did many American purchase consumer products? 4) How did the events DURING and AFTER World War One affect American farmers? 5) When the stock market began to fall, how did many stockholders react? How did their reaction affect the stock market? 6) Why did so many banks fail in the immediate aftermath of the stock market crash? 7) How did the crash affect European businesses? How did that in turn affect American businesses? 8) What were the THREE root causes of the onset of the Great Depression? 9) What was a "Hooverville"? 10) What was the Dust Bowl? To where did many dust bowl farmers relocate?
11) What was President Herbert Hoover's philosophy in respect to the role of the government in fixing a bad economy? 12) What was "volunteerism"? Was it successful? 13) Who defeated Hoover in the presidential election of 1932? What was his philosophy in respect to the role of government in fixing a bad economy? 14) List and define the three "R's" of the New Deal: 15) What was the purpose of the "Emergency Banking Act"? 16) What is the FDIC? What is its purpose? 17) What was the purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps? 18) What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority? 19) What was the role of Eleanor Roosevelt in FDR's administration? 20) What was the purpose of the Social Security Act? 21) What was the Wagner Act? What was its result?
22) Who was Huey Long? What was his economic proposal? 23) Explain the purpose and result of Roosevelt's "Court Packing" scheme: 24) Explain the importance of the Battle of Midway: 25) What was the central thesis of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf? 26) How did the election of General Hideki Tojo affect US-Japanese relations in the days before US entry into WW2? 27) Which nations comprised the Allied Powers during WW2? 28) Explain the political philosophy of fascism: 29) Explain the events surrounding the Battle of Britain: 30) Explain the importance of the Battle of Okinawa: 31) What happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? How did it affect American attitudes towards US entry in to WW2? 32) Before US entry into WW2, many Americans held isolationist opinions. What does that mean? Why? 33) What was the role of Winston Churchill during WW2? 34) What was the role of Dwight Eisenhower during WW2?
35) What was the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt during WW2? 36) What was the role of Josef Stalin during WW2? 37) Who, according to Adolf Hitler, are the Aryans? Why did he consider them important? 38) Explain the role of the Blackshirts in Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy: 39) How did the "code talkers" contribute to the US' war effort? 40) What was the US' goal in its "island hopping" campaign? 41) What was the significance of the passage of "Lend-Lease" act, prior to US entry into WW2? 42) What is appeasement? How did this policy affect the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany? 43) Which nations comprised the Axis Powers during WW2? 44) What was the role of Douglas MacArthur during WW2? 45) What was the importance of the Battle of Iwo Jima? 46) What was the importance of the Battle of Guadalcanal? 47) How did the D-Day invasion affect the European theater of WW2? 48) What was the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer during WW2?
49) What was the role of Albert Einstein during WW2? 50) What was the importance of the Battle of the Bulge? 51) Explain the importance of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact: 52) Why did President Harry Truman make the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 53) What was the goal of the Manhattan Project? 54) What occurred at the Nuremberg Trials at the conclusion of WW2? 55) What was the purpose of the Japanese internment camps that were established after the attack on Pearl Harbor? 56) Who was "Rosie the Riveter"? What changes in the US workforce does she symbolize? 57) Who was A Phillip Randolph, and how did he play a role during WWI? 58) What did privately-owned companies do to help the Allies during WWII? 59) What is rationing, and how was rationing used during WWII? 60) Explain the difficulties in transporting goods to the Allies in the European and Pacific theaters of war.