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Question 1

Which president was blamed for the Great Depression?

Answer 1

Herbert Hoover

Question 2

What did the veterans call themselves who marched on Washington for their bonuses?

Answer 2

Bonus Expeditionary Force

Question 3

What fraction of people were out of work at the worst of the depression?

Answer 3

1 out of 4 people

Question 4

What happened to thousands of men who could not find work?

Answer 4

They wandered around the country looking for a job and slept with Hoover Blankets

Question 5

Name of Great Plains because of a drought?

Answer 5

Dust Bowl

Question 6

Who did Herbert believe should fix the depression

Answer 6

American businesses

Question 7

What happened to thousands of banks between 1929 and 1933

Answer 7

They closed

Question 8

What happened to BEF camp in Washington?

Answer 8

Camp was burned

Question 9

President in 1932

Answer 9

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 10

FDR’s policies

Answer 10

New Deal

Question 11

Whats a Hooverville

Answer 11

Communities of shacks made out of wood, cardboard and tin.

Question 12

Whats a Hoover Blanket

Answer 12

Old newspaper

Question 13

What did Herbert believe he could not do with the government money?

Answer 13

Use it to fix depression

Question 14

Was the dictator of Italy

Answer 14

Benito Mussolini

Question 15

Was the dictator of Germany

Answer 15

Adolf Hitler

Question 16

Was the dictator of the Soviet Union

Answer 16

Joseph Stalin

Question 17

The prime minister of Great Britain in World War II was

Answer 17

Winston Churchill

Question 18

The symbol of the Nazi Germany was the

Answer 18

swastika

Question 19

The Nazi’s new way of fighting was called

Answer 19

blitzkrieg

Question 20

In June of 1941, Hitler ignored his treaty with Stalin and invaded

Answer 20

the Soviet Union

Question 21

The alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan was called

Answer 21

Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis

Question 22

By June of 1940, what country was the only one still fighting Germany in Europe?

Answer 22

Great Britain

Question 23

The League of Nations did not stop Italy when invaded what country?

Answer 23

Ethiopia in 1935

Question 24

Hitler particularly hated

the

Answer 24

Jewish people

Question 25

Hitler believed the Germans were

a

Answer 25

master race

Question 26

Hitler was appeased at the Conference in 1938 when Britain and France gave him part of

Answer 26

Czechoslovakia

Question 27

The rescue of the British army across the English Channel by many British ships in May of 1940 was called
the

Answer 27

“Miracle of Dunkirk.”

Question 28

The small piece of France left after June of 1940 was called

Answer 28

Vichy France

Question 29

World War II began when Germany invaded

Answer 29

Poland