Terms Review IX

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Terms Review IX

• The Great Depression and World War II

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What term was used to describe the period during
the 1930s in which there was a long period of
high unemployment and increased poverty in the
United States?

• Great Depression

3
What term was used to describe the blowing away
of huge amounts of soil from the Plains states,
causing farm failures?

• Dust Bowl

4
What United States President was blamed for
starting the Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover

5
What was Roosevelts program to stimulate the
economy and increase the nations reserves?

• The New Deal

6
What act created a committee to monitor unfair
management practices?

• Wagner Act

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What part of Roosevelts New Deal provided new
jobs for unskilled workers during the Great
Depression?

• Works Progress Administration

8
What popular 1939 movie depicted a story of love
and loss in the South ravaged by the Civil War?

• Gone With the Wind

9
What were Franklin Roosevelts weekly radio
addresses to the people of the United States
called?

• Fireside Chats

10
Who was the fascist dictator who transformed
Italy into a militaristic state?

• Benito Mussolini

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This was a political movement started in Italy
which called for eliminating all political
opposition, preserving a capitalist economy, and
increasing the military power of a nation.

• Fascism

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What was the political party in Germany led by
Adolph Hitler which supported racist fascism?

• National Socialists (Nazis)

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Who was the dictator of Germany and leader of the
Nazi Party who initiated a systematic conquest of
Europe leading to World War II?

• Adolph Hitler

14
Term used to refer to Hitlers secret police who
helped suppress his dissenters.

• Gestapo

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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during
World War II?

• Joseph Stalin

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A military agreement of mutual assistance between
the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan

• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

17
Meeting in 1938 of European nations they agreed
to Hitlers demands for the Sudetenland, a German
speaking section of Czechoslovakia.

• Munich Conference

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German term for lightening war, swift sudden
offensive used by Germany in World War II.

• Blitzkrieg

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United States Navel Base in Hawaii which suffered
a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7,
1941.

• Pearl Harbor

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These were certificates issued to a person who
lends money to the government to pay for war, the
certificate earns interest and is redeemed for
cash on a given date.

• War Bonds

21
Term that refers to the event where under the
authority of Executive Order 9006, the United
States military forced 110,000 Japanese Americans
to live in barracks on federal land until the end
of WWII.

• Japanese Internment

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In January 1943, Soviet troops repelled attack,
causing the German army to retreat from Russia.

• Battle of Stalingrad

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Who was the United States general who led the
Allied forces in Europe during World War II?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

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What was the military code name for the Allied
invasion of North Africa?

• Operation Overlord

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Who was the strong leader of Britain during World
War II? He was the Prime Minister from 1940-1945.

• Winston Churchill

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Event that happened on June 6, 1944. Allies
landed on the beaches of Normandy.

• D-Day

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The northern coast of France, the Allies attacked
here to recapture France.

• Normandy

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What was the common name for the army of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

• Red Army

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Who was the United States General who led the
Allied forces in the Pacific during World War II?

• Douglas Macarthur

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What was the code name for the construction of an
atomic bomb in the United States?

• Manhattan Project

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What was the name of the B-29 airplane which
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

• Enola Gay

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What Japanese city was destroyed on August 6,
1945 by an Allied atomic bomb?

• Hiroshima

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What Japanese city was destroyed on August 9,
1945 by an Allied atomic bomb?

• Nagasaki