1. CRT REVIEW
3rd Quarter SS

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Question 7
What was the Income Tax Act?

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

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

12. Question 10
What were fireside chats?

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

14. Question 12
Name the Italian fascist leader that invaded Ethiopia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30. Question 28
Why was Nagasaki important?
2nd

31. Question 29
Who persecuted the Jews during the Holocaust?

32. Question 30
Why was Nuremberg important?

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

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

35. Question 33
What did the Marshall Plan provide for?

36. Question 34
How and why was the United Nations created?

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