The Great Depression And WWII

Question 1

A day which will live in infamy

Answer 1

Description by Franklin D Roosevelt about the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

Question 2

Richard E Byrd

Answer 2

Explorer, navigation on the first flight over the North Pole and one of the first flights over the South Pole, several expeditions to the Antarctica

Question 3

Al Capone

Answer 3

Crime leader in Chicago, gambling, selling alcohol, prostitution. Sent to prison for tax evasion.

Question 4

Child labor laws

Answer 4

Laws passed that greatly restricted the employment of children except for a few jobs.

Question 5

Stock market crash of 1929

Answer 5

Enormous decrease of stock prices at the stock exchange of Wall Street in October 1929. Began the Great Depression.

Question 6

Great Depression

Answer 6

Slow down of American economy, 1929-1940, businesses and banks failed, lots of lost jobs.

Question 7

Dust bowel

Answer 7

Patched region in the Great Plains (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas) created enormous dust storms.

Question 8

Amelia Earhart

Answer 8

First women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

Question 9

Fireside chats

Answer 9

Informal radio addresses be Franklin d Roosevelt, explain policy’s and calm about Great Depression.

Question 10

Four freedoms

Answer 10

4 kinds of freedom mentioned by Franklin D Roosevelt in a speech made in 1941. Freedom of speech, expression, worship, want, fear.

Question 11

GI Joe

Answer 11

Nickname for US soldiers during WWII

Question 12

Iwo Jima

Answer 12

Island in Pacific Ocean taken by US from Japan at the end of WWII.

Question 13

Internment of Japanese Americans

Answer 13

Action by federal government after Pearl Harbor Japanese American where put into relocation camps.

Question 14

Manhattan Project

Answer 14

Code name for effort to create the atomic bomb for IS during wwii. First controlled nuclear reaction took place in Chicago in 1942.

Question 15

Battle of Midway Islands

Answer 15

Naval and air battle fought in wwii where us planes blunted the Japanese naval threat after pearl harbor.

Question 16

New Deal

Answer 16

Group of government programs/ policies to improve conditions for people suffering during the Great Depression.

Question 17

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Answer 17

Statement from first inarguable address of fdr in 1933

Question 18

Jesse Owen’s

Answer 18

African American athlete won four gold medals in track and field in the Olympics.

Question 19

Pearl Harbor

Answer 19

US naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japan via Air Force December 7, 1941.

Question 20

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 20

US president, fireside chats, new deal, manhatin project.

Question 21

Axis powers

Answer 21

Germany Italy and Japan where allied before and during wwii

Question 22

D-Day

Answer 22

Code name for the first day of military attack , American and British Invasion of German occupied France June 6, 1944 beginning of victory of the allies in Europe.

Question 23

Fascism

Answer 23

System of government in Europe from 1920 till end of wwii, dictator, flashy/ parades and stuff.

Question 24

Hiroshima

Answer 24

Japanese city where IS dropped first atomic bomb August 6, 1945.

Question 25

Holocaust

Answer 25

Killing of 6 million Jews by nazis during wwii

Question 26

Kamikaze

Answer 26

Japanese fighter pilots wwii, suicide crashes

Question 27

Invasion of Normandy

Answer 27

American and British Invasion of France in wwii

Question 28

World War Two

Answer 28

A war fought from 1939-1945 between axis powers and allies