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US 2 Benchmark 1 Study Guide:
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Research from the notes, and internet, 2 to 4 accurate details that can answer the question posed or
explain each topic:
1. Great depression and Volunteerism. Volunteerism is:
2. The Bonus Army:
3. Dust Bowl HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
4. Study and KNOW: During the Great Depression EUROPEAN COUNTRIES CARRIED A GREAT
AMOUNT OF DEBT from WW1
5. WHAT DECADE IN THE US saw the greatest amount of Unemployement?
6. Why was NIRA (National Industrial Recovery ACT) called unconstitutional? Gave law-making
powers to the president that the constitution did not
7. What is the TVA and what did it do?
8. The New Deal: Name at least 3 things it did:
9. Name at least one New Deal program that still exists today:
10. Why was the FDIC created? What law brought it into existence?
11. What were “fireside chats”? who gave them AND WHY were they given?
12. STUDY AND KNOW: that the LEAGUES OF NATIONS WAS UNABLE TO ENFORCE ANY OF ITS
RULINGS
13. THE USA agreed to become the “arsenal of democracy before and during WW2? WHAT was it
“making” (the banking term not the actual war items) that got us out the Great Depression?
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14. What is “isolationism” that the USA tried to follow before WW2? :
15. What happened to the German passenger ship called the M.S. St. Louis that was trying to carry
Jews from Germany to the USA before WW2?
16. What was the situation like in Germany after the WW1 Treaty of Versailles and the start
of the Great Depression?
17. What is appeasement and Which British Prime Minister was accused of using it just
before WW2?
18. When Germany completed the Anschluss (UNION) with Austria, the League of Nations
responded by: TAKING NO REAL ACTION
19. Explain the Lend Lease Act:
20. Weather and geography greatly impacted Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. In
1942, the Russian winter: was what?
21. War Production Board name “measures” or steps it took:
22. What did the OSRD do? Name a drug it created and two things it made:
23. Know who were in the AXIS Powers:
24. What did women to help out during WW2 in the ALLIED Countries?
25. Name a discriminatory practice African Americans faced as they served in WW2:
26. Why were atomic weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
27. What was the name for the US strategy in the Pacific to defeat Japan?
28. Name the presidents during WW2:
29. -30. Name 2 famous battles in WW2 ()NE FROM THE WAR IN EUROPE and ONE
From the War in the PACIFIC and describe 4 things about each: