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Prattville High School

Prattville High School. Study Guide for Final. What is the name given to the day that the Stock Market Crashed?. Black Tuesday. What is a budget deficit?. Spending more than is collected. Who were hobos?. Homeless wanderers who often rode the rails. What is speculation?.

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Prattville High School

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  1. Prattville High School Study Guide for Final

  2. What is the name given to the day that the Stock Market Crashed? • Black Tuesday. 1

  3. What is a budget deficit? • Spending more than is collected. 2

  4. Who were hobos? • Homeless wanderers who often rode the rails. 3

  5. What is speculation? • Investing in the stock market hoping for a quick profit. 4

  6. Who led the troops that dispersed the Bonus Army? • Douglas MacArthur 5

  7. What is a bank run? • When many depositors withdraw money at once. 6

  8. What did the Civil Works Administration do? • They hired workers directly, including thousands of women, to build or improve airports, roads, and playgrounds. 7

  9. What was one achievement of the Fair Labor Standards Act? • Established a 40-hour workweek for many workers. 8

  10. What was the role of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation? • Covered people’s savings in banks against loss. 9

  11. What group was formed to oppose the New Deal? • The American Liberty League. 10

  12. What did the National Housing Act do? • Subsidized loans for builders willing to buy blocks of slums and build low-cost housing. 11

  13. What agency awarded contracts to construction companies to build highways, dams, schools, and other facilities? • Public Works Administration 12

  14. What was the Securities Act? • Required companies that sold stocks and bonds to provide complete and truthful information to investors. 13

  15. What governmental act was established to provide some security for unemployed workers? • Social Security Act 14

  16. What was the major campaign issue in the 1928 election? • Prohibition 15

  17. Why did stock prices first begin to decline in late 1929? • Investors began to sell their stock. 16

  18. Why did farmers on the Great Plains begin to lose their crops in 1932? • The soil dried up. 17

  19. What did thousands of World War I veterans come to Washington in 1932 to do? • Lobby Congress to pass legislation giving veterans their promised bonus early. 18

  20. Why did President Hoover oppose direct federal relief of the unemployed? • He believed that only state and city governments should dole out relief. 19

  21. How did the National Credit Corporation try to rescue troubled banks? • By using money from New York bankers to bail them out. 20

  22. Why did many state governors declare “bank holidays”? • To prevent bank runs and to give the American public confidence in the banking system. 21

  23. To regulate the stock market, what did the Roosevelt Administration create? • The Securities and Exchange Commission. 22

  24. What was one thing the National Industrial Recovery Act set up? • They set up codes of fair competition. 23

  25. What was the most popular Nazi extermination camp? • Auschwitz 24

  26. What was the sitzkrieg? • Period when Britain and France waited for the Germans to attack. 25

  27. What was the Gestapo? • Nazi government secret police. 26

  28. What was the Holocaust? • Mass killing of millions of Europeans (especially Jews) by the Nazis. 27

  29. What was “cash and carry”? • Requirement imposed by the first two Neutrality Acts for the purchase of nonmilitary supplies from the U.S. Aimed at keeping the U.S. out of the war. 28

  30. Who did Adolf Hitler blame Germany’s defeat in World War I on? • Jews 29

  31. Who were the Axis Powers? • Germany • Italy • Japan 30

  32. When did it become obvious that appeasment had failed? • When Hitler made demands for territory in Poland. 31

  33. What did the Nuremberg Laws do? • Took citizenship away from Jewish Germans. 32

  34. What was the Maginot Line? • French fortifications along the German border. 33

  35. What happened to most of the Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis? • They died of the Nazis’ Final Solution. 34

  36. What was the Nazis “Final Solution”? • Extermination of the Jews. 35

  37. What were Aryans? • Believed by Hitler to be a “master race” destined to rule the world. 36

  38. What is lebensraum? • Living space. 37

  39. What was the Luftwaffe? • German air force. 38

  40. Where did the Japanese military invade to get resources? • Manchuria 39

  41. What did the Neutrality Act of 1935 make illegal? • For Americans to sell arms to any country at war. 40

  42. What did Britain and France do at the Munich Conference? • Gave in to Hitler’s demands for the Sudetenland. 41

  43. What was the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty? • An agreement that Russia and Germany would not fight each other. Also contained a secret deal to divide Poland between them. 42

  44. Who saved England in the Battle of Britain? • The Royal Air Force (and radar). 43

  45. What was Kristallnacht? • Night of broken glass when anti-Jewish violence was rampant. 44

  46. What was the Lend-Lease Act? • Gave Roosevelt a way of getting arms to Britain without Britain having to pay cash. 45

  47. What does the Nazi party stand for? • National Socialist German Workers Party. 46

  48. What was the name of the book that Hitler wrote while in prison? • Mein Kampf (My Struggle) 47

  49. What happened at Dunkirk? • Dramatic evacuation of 338,000 British and French troops. 48

  50. What happened on December 7, 1941? • Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 49

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