Great Depression and New Deal Quiz

Stock Market crash of 1929

A sudden collapse of stock prices in October 1929 that helped trigger the Great Depression.

causes of the Great Depression

Overproduction, weak banks, stock market speculation, unequal wealth distribution, and reduced consumer spending.

Hoovervilles

Shantytowns built by homeless people during the Depression, named after President Herbert Hoover.

National Industrial Recovery Act

A law to boost industry by setting wages, prices, and working conditions (part of the New Deal).

Civilian Conservation Corps

A program that gave jobs to young men doing environmental work.

Public works Administration

Government agency that funded large construction projects to create jobs

Tennessee Valley Authority

Program that built dams, provided electricity, and improved the economy in the Tennessee Valley.

Glass Steagall Act

separated commercial banking from investment banking

Works Progress Administration

Created millions of jobs in construction, arts, and public projects.

Wagner Act

Protected workers’ rights to join unions and bargain collectively.

Social Security Act

Established pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and aid for the disabled.

New Deal

Series of programs and reforms by Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight the Great Depression.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Insures bank deposits to prevent bank failures.

Federal Housing Administration

Helped people buy homes by providing mortgage insurance.

Bonus Army

WWI veterans who marched in Washington demanding early payment of bonuses.

Courting Packing Plan

Roosevelt’s failed plan to add more Supreme Court justices.

Isolationism

Policy of avoiding involvement in foreign conflicts

Interventionism/Internationalism

Belief that a country should be actively involved in world affairs.

Atlantic Charter

Statement by the US and Britain outlining goals for the postwar world.

Neutrality Acts

Laws aimed at keeping the US out of foreign wars

Lend-Lease Acts

Allowed the US to send weapons and supplies to Allied nations.

Allies and Axis Powers

The two opposing sides in WWII.

Attack on Pearl Habor

Surprise attack by Japan that led the US to enter WWII.

Battle of Midway

Major US naval victory that turned the tide against Japan

Battle of Stalingrad

Major Soviet victory over Germany; turning point in Europe

Operation Overlord

Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France in 1944.

Yalta conference and Potsdam Conference

Meetings where Allied leaders planned postwar Europe

Four freedoms

Freedom of speech, worship, from want, and from fear

War Production Board

Directed industrial production for the war effort.

Office of war Information

Controlled war news and propaganda.

Women’s Army Corps

Allowed women to serve in non-combat military roles.

Korematsu v. United States

Upheld Japanese American internment during WWII.

Bracero Program

Brought Mexican workers to the US to fill labor shortages

Double V Campaign

African American campaign for victory abroad and equality at home.