Roaring 20s, Great Depression, WWII

The atomic bomb was a new weapon designed to gain a strategic advantage and quickly bring the war to an end. What was the code name of the effort to develop this?

• Los Alamos Project

• Manchester Development

• Manhattan Project

• Zimmerman Telegram

This New Deal program provides income to retired people

• Social Security Administration

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Farm Credit Administration

• Works Progress Administration

Practice of of making high risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits (reason for stock market crash/Great Depression)

• Speculation

• Passive buying

• Militarism

• Lassez faire market

During the Great Depression:

President Hoover=Hands off gov.

President (FDR) Roosevelt =...?

• Involved government

• Laissez Faire

• Neutral

• No control

Cultural icon during WWII representing women who worked in factories and shipyards

• Rhonda the Riveter

• Rosie the Riveter

• Susie the Salesman

• Brenda the Businesswoman

Upon discovering Nazi concentration camps, General Eisenhower helped to make them public to the American people in order to show them what they are fighting for.

• True

• False

Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps during WWII, violating amendments that state that they are citizens in the US.

• True

• False

These were encouraged by the US government during WWII to help ration food and boost moral

• Victory Gardens

• Defeat Gardens

• Victory Restaurants

• Victory Snacks

The Smoot-Hawley tariff was put into place to protect industries from foreign competition, in reality, it led to what?

• Decrease in international trade (Tariffs too high)

• Increase in international trade (Tariffs all time low)

• Trade remained the same

• Tariffs were lowered, which helped trade

Fighting in multiple fronts/theaters made it a challenge for the US during WWII. Where were they fighting?

• European & Pacific

• European & Atlantic

• Atlantic & Pacific

• American & German