1929 – 1936: Stormy Weather



Questions: Stormy Weather: 1929-1936

Directions: Answer the questions in the space provided as you watch the video from Peter Jennings’ The Century: America’s Time.

1. Why did the “Bonus Army” march to Washington, D.C?

2. What did President Hoover order the U.S. Army to do to the Bonus Army’s camp?

3. How did the Great Depression affect the powerful U.S. Steel corporation?

4. Within one year of the stock market crash, ____________ (number) banks failed and ____________ (number) savings accounts were lost forever.

5. True or False: In 1930, the government had little effect on people’s daily lives.

6. Where did many Americans go to escape their problems in the 1930s?

7. What new type of jazz music developed in the 1930s amidst the Depression?

8. The _______________ was the most important appliance in the American home in the 1930s.

9. What natural disaster hit America’s farmlands during the 1930s?

10. Many farm families fled to ____________ to look for jobs.

11. True or False: During the Depression more people left America than came to it.

12. _______________, still suffering from the harsh conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, was hit especially hard by the Depression.

13. _______________ appeared as a powerful leader who promised to lead Germany out of the Great Depression.

14. Why did so many Germans follow Hitler?

15. Who did the American people blame for the Depression?

16. Why did so many Americans vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932?

17. ____________ percent of the American people, 16 million in all, were unemployed in 1933.

18. What disease rendered F.D.R. partially paralyzed?

19. What part of the American economy did he deal with first?

20. What California city saw a massive, violent strike by dock workers in 1934?

21. In 1934, there were over _______________ (number) strikes in the U.S.

22. The most famous and dangerous opponent of F.D.R. was _______________ of Louisiana.

23. Why were Long’s message and plans so potentially dangerous?

24. True or False: By 1937, F.D.R.’s New Deal programs had eliminated the Great Depression.

25. True or False: By 1937, Hitler’s Germany had overcome its Depression.

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