GA 5th Grade SS WWI/1920s/Great Depression

Question 1

Won 4 gold medals as a runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 2

Many people blamed this president for causing the Great Depression.

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Herbert Hoover

Question 3

Which one of these is NOT a New Deal program?

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Working Painters Association

Question 4

Famous baseball player of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Babe Ruth

Question 5

Jazz singer and trumpet player who was popular for improvising.

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Louis Armstrong

Question 6

In the infamous "Zimmerman Note," Germany secretly

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asked Mexico to attack the United States

Question 7

Which of these did NOT happen in the 1920s?

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Many people lived in shanytowns called "Hoovervilles."

Question 8

World War I ended when...

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the Treaty of Versailles was signed

Question 9

At the beginning of WWI, the United States________

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Did not want to join the war

Question 10

Which president promised Americans a "New Deal" during the Great Depression?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 11

African-American cultural and artistic movement in 1920s New York.

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 12

Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Americans that his _________ would create lots of jobs.

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New Deal

Question 13

This program helped control flooding and provided cheap electric power to people in Tennessee

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TVA

Question 14

All of the following are causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT

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WWI ended

Question 15

Which musician helped make jazz music a big hit in the 1920s?

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Louis Armstrong

Question 16

famous African-American writer and poet during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Langston Hughes

Question 17

In the 1930s, drought and overplanting destroyed land on the Great Plains . This is called the

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Dust Bowl

Question 18

WWI started in 1914, but the US didn't join until 1917. Why?

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The war was in Europe and we thought it was not our problem.

Question 19

Which of these inventions helped make mass production faster and cheaper?

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assembly line

Question 20

High unemployment, economic hardship, bank failures. These terms are mostly associated with the

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1930s

Question 21

Which of these is NOT associated with the Great Depression?

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Trenches

Question 22

Author of the famous book Gone with the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell

Question 23

One reason the United States entered WWI was

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Germany sent a secret message to Mexico

Question 24

Famous jazz singer and leader of a new kind of jazz called "Big Band" music

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Duke Ellington

Question 25

Many people lost a lot of money when the stock market crashed on _____________

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October 29, 1929

Question 26

German U-boats attacked and sank the ____________ killing 128 Americans.

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Lusitania

Question 27

Many new inventions, booming economy, mass production. These words best describe...

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the 1920s

Question 28

The Treaty of Versailles blamed ______ for WWI and made them pay reparations to the Allies.

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Germany

Question 29

Area between trenches of opposing sides on a battlefield

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No man's land

Question 30

In 1917, the United States joined WWI on the side of the ______

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Allies

Question 31

He created the modern assembly line which is still used in factories today.

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Henry Ford

Question 32

On October 29, 1929 the ______________________ marking the beginning of the Great Depression

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stock market crashed

Question 33

WWI is sometimes called the "_______" war because of the type of warfare used.

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trench

Question 34

Because of _______________, many products could be made quicker and cheaper.

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mass production

Question 35

WWI lasted from ___________.

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1914-1918

Question 36

The United States decided to enter WWI in

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1917

Question 37

One reason the United States entered WWI was

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Germany sank the Lusitania

Question 38

First to fly a plane across the Atlantic Ocean by himself without stopping.

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Charles Lindberg

Question 39

Soup kitchens were

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Places where people who had no money could get free food

Question 40

Why did many banks fail during the 1930s?

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People did not have money to pay back their loans

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