World War II

Question 1

Margin Buying

Answer 1

Buying on credit. Someone will spend more than what they have on hand on an investment. This is done by putting a small amount of money down as collateral, then borrowing the rest from the broker. It can result in excellent revenue or devastating losses for the broker.

Question 2

Hooverville

Answer 2

Cardboard shacks with no electricity or water.

Question 3

1st New Deal

Answer 3

Issued by FDR, this was a series of bills and organizations to help end the Depression by relief, recovery and reform.

Question 4

Benito Mussolini

Answer 4

Creator of Fascism, Leader of the Fascist Party, & Dictator of Italy. Later killed by the Allies.

Question 5

Nazi Party

Answer 5

People who supported Adolf Hitler.

Question 6

Yalta Conference

Answer 6

Meeting held with FDR, Stalin, & Churchill where they settle agreement.

1. Create the UN.
2. Divide Germany into 4 zones.
3. USSR will go to war w/ Japan 6 months after VE Day.
4. Democratic Elections in Europe.

Question 7

Munich Conference

Answer 7

Conference Germany, Britain and France. Hitler wanted Western Czechoslovakia. France and Great Britain agree to giving him Western Czechoslovakia, in return for Hitler’s promise to stop taking more land. But a year later he takes over all of Czechoslovakia, breaking the pact.

Question 8

Black Thursday

Answer 8

Stocks go way down.

Question 9

Dust Bowl

Answer 9

Period of sever dust storms which resulted in major ecological and agricultural damage to American land.

Question 10

2nd New Deal

Answer 10

bills and organizations to create government regulation, labor, housing and farms.

Question 11

Japanese Internment

Answer 11

U.S. puts all Japanese Americans in the West in concentration camps. But, not in Hawaii.

Question 12

D-Day

Answer 12

U.S and Allies invade Normandy, France to open up a second war front.

Question 13

Island Hopping Strategy

Answer 13

US and Allies take a few strategic islands, but not all of them.

Question 14

Pearl Harbor

Answer 14

First war in the War in the Pacific and when US enters the war.

Question 15

What are the causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 15

1. Crash
2. Overproduction of Goods
3. Weak Industries
4. Federal Government didn’t help

Question 16

What was the impact of the Great Depression on average Americans?

Answer 16

The average American was unemployed, poor, and lived in Hoovervilles. Many families lost all of the money they had.

Question 17

What were the Okies?

Answer 17

Slang for poor migrants from Oklahoma. Many Oklahomans lost their farms during the Dust Bowl.

Question 18

What was the impact of the Dustbowl ?

Answer 18

Many farmers lost their farms and homes, then had to migrate to find work that usually wasn’t available.