Great Depression, New Deal and WWII

What does the FDIC do?

• Insure your bank deposits

• Help create hydroelectric power and electricity for rural areas in Tennessee

• Provide job training for unemployed men

• Give pensions to the elderly, as well as payments for those disabled and unemployed.

What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?

• Insure bank deposits

• Provide job training to unemployed men

• Give pensions to the elderly and unemployment benefits

• Provide electricity to those in Tennessee through the usage of hydroelectric power.

Over-farming and _______ led to the Dust Bowl

• Underconsumption

• Drought

• Overproduction

• Flooding

This president is credited with the creation of the New Deal. He also served four terms and was president throughout the majority of WWII.

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

What was the name of the people who left the area known as the Dust Bowl for the west coast, like California?

• Dusters

• Hoovervilles

• Okies

• Lend-Leasers

Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady during FDR's presidency, was a strong advocate for the rights of women and __________. She also spoke out in support of the New Deal.

• African-Americans

• Immigrants

• Veterans

• Poor people

After the death of FDR, who took over as president?

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Harry Truman

• Herbert Hoover

• Eleanor Roosevelt

The Manhattan Project was a top secret project that was responsible for the creation of _____________________.

• Lend-Lease Act

• Atomic bombs

• D-Day invasion plans

• Hydrogen bombs

When the US was participating in the Lend-Lease Act, they were supplying weapons to their allies, but not soldiers. Who was not part of the Allied Forces in WWII?

• Great Britain

• France

• Italy

• USSR

The process of "Island-Hopping" was a US strategy of capturing smaller islands in the Pacific when fighting which enemy?

• Germany

• Italy

• China

• Japan