CRT REVIEW 3rd Quarter SS

Question 36 Communists and socialists viewed the Great Depression as the “_____________________________”. (death of a failed system) - they believed that capitalism was the wrong way to live, and that is why we were going through the Great Depression.

Question 1 What is an organized system for buying and selling shares in corporations called?

Question 2 What was the term used to describe what happened when farmers could not repay loans?

Question 3 What was Black Thursday (October 24, 1929)?

Question 4 What was the severe economic slump in the 1930s called and what areas were hardest hit?

Question 5 What was the name given to farmers who traveled from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables?

Question 6 The environmental disaster caused by drought and strong prairie winds, led the Great Plains to become known by what name?

Question 7 What was the Income Tax Act?

Question 8 The Hundred Days was the first three months in office of which President and why were they important?

Question 9 What was the name of the group chosen by Franklin Roosevelt to help guide the nation to recovery?

Question 10 What were fireside chats?

Question 11 What Act was designed to provide monthly pensions for retired people?

Question 12 Name the Italian fascist leader that invaded Ethiopia?

Question 13 What country was Adolf Hitler the totalitarian dictator of during World War II?

Question 14 What country was led by Joseph Stalin in World War II?

Question 15 What country suffered the greatest military defeat of their history when Pearl Harbor was attacked?

Question 16 What major powers did the Allied Powers consist of?

Question 17 Who were the countries that united to form the Axis Powers? JIG

Question 18 Where did the Battle of the Bulge take place?

Question 19 What country did Winston Churchill serve as prime minister during World War II?

Question 20 Which leader invaded the African nation of Ethiopia in hopes of recapturing the glory of the ancient Romans?

Question 21 Anti-Semitism described a hatred of which group of people?

Question 22 Who was president of the United States when Pearl Harbor was attacked?

Question 23 How long did the Battle of Leningrad last? 900

Question 24 Which country was defeated at the Battle of Stalingrad?

Question 25 What was the Battle of Iwo Jima remembered for?

Question 26 What was the product of the Manhattan Project and which country was it used against?

Question 27 What decision did president Truman make in order to force Japanese leaders to surrender?

Question 28 Why was Nagasaki important? 2nd

Question 29 Who persecuted the Jews during the Holocaust?

Question 30 Why was Nuremberg important?

Question 31 How many Jews died during the Holocaust and what term describes the wiping out of an entire group of people? million

Question 32 What was the number of fatalities during World War II? million

Question 33 What did the Marshall Plan provide for?

Question 34 How and why was the United Nations created?

Question 35 Where did the meeting take place to discuss the post war world?