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2. What caused overproduction?
Answer: Mass production and assembly lines created too much inventory

3. How did consumers add to the great depression?
Answer: Under-Consumption

4. What happened to banks at the beginning of the depression?
Answer: ran out of money and closed

5. Why did the stock market crash?
Answer: too many stocks selling and nobody buying making stock worthless

6. What term refers to the separation of rich and poor people during the great depression?
Answer: Wealth gap

7. What is the name of FDR’s programs to get us out of the depression?
Answer: New Deal

8. The purpose of most New Deal programs was to?
Answer: Give jobs to unemployed

9. How did the new deal affect government?
Answer: Increased the size and power of the government

10. New Deal Programs affected businesses by?
Answer: Controlling prices and wages

11. Did the New Deal programs get us out of the depression?
Answer: not sure because of ww2

12. What caused ww2?
Answer: Germany being blamed for ww1 and paying for it

13. At the beginning of ww2 all of Europe was in a ?
Answer: Depression

14. What term allowed Germany to regain its empire ?
Answer: Appeasement

15. What is Germany’s mistake during ww2?
Answer: Attacks Russia

16. What is Japan’s Mistake during WW2?
Answer: Attacks Pearl Harbor (U.S.)

17. What term is used to refer to America helping the allies?
Answer: Lend Lease Act

18. What is America’s Strategy Against Japan?
Answer: Island Hopping

19. Why did Truman drop the Atom Bomb?
Answer: Save American Soldiers lives

20. What event ends ww2?
Answer: Dropping the Atomic Bomb

22. What term is used to describe the advertisements in America about ww2 ?
Answer: Propaganda

23. What term describes the treatment of Japanese Americans during ww2?
Answer: Interment camps

24. What term is used to name the ending of the war in Europe?
Answer: V. E. Day (Victory Europe day)

25. What term is used to name the ending of the war in Japan
Answer: V. J. Day (Victory Japan Day)

26. What term describes the day the stock Market crashed?
Answer: Black Tuesday

27. What was created in the middle of the United States because of the Great Depression and lack of working on farms?
Answer: Dust Bowl

28. Who is in control of the economy?
Answer: Consumers

29. 1920’s caused the great depression as consumers were using what to buy goods?
Answer: Credit

30. Who was the president of the United States during the depression and ww2?
Answer: FDR

31. How did Americans help the war effort in terms of food during ww2?
Answer: Rationing

32. Final Jeopardy
Name 2 ways North Carolina was involved in ww2 or the Great depression?
Answer

33. What atrocity was discovered after Germany surrendered during ww2?
Answer: the Holocaust

34. Millions of troops trained at bases in North Carolina.
WW2
Torpedo Junction- German submarine activity that took place off the coast of Cape Hatteras.
Hospitals set up to take care of hurt/ burnt soldiers who were trying to protect ships off Carolina coast.
Millions of troops trained at bases in North Carolina.
2 billion dollars came to North Carolina for War effort pulling them out of the Depression.
One million men and women from North Carolina were part of the War effort.
Great Depression
194 banks and 438 loan companies closed.
Lots of North Carolina families lost homes, Businesses, and farms.
Shortages caused the movement of people to mill towns but even the cash crop farms were affected .
Governor Gardner created the Live at Home program teaching people how to be subsistence farmers.
New deal programs helped NC citizens
CCC Paid people to plant trees, fix roads and other state work.
National Youth Association gave many students money to go to college.
WPA hired people to interview and write lives of people .
Rural Electrification Administration- paid people to help electrify rural parts of the state.