Question

The 1930's

1. What of the importance of the stock market crash?
2.Why didn't Hoover the government to assist during the Depression?
3.What happened at the strike at Ford's Motor Company?
4.What was the bonus army?
5.What was FDR's plan to end the great depression?
6.What was FDR's big secret? How did he keep it hidden?
7.Were FDR's first actions when he was elected president?
8.What did FDR do to end "Roosevelt's Recession?"
9.What are 5 major historical events of the 1930's.
10.What are 5 major cultural events of the 1930's

Answer 1

1. Stock market crashes remind investors of the fragility of the economic system and the importance of diversified investments.

2. Hoover directed relief efforts to supply war-torn Europe and Russia during and after the First World War.

3. a walkout by Ford workers protesting the firing of several union members closed down the River Rouge plant.

4. The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I

5. expanded the role of the federal government in the nation’s economy in an effort to address the challenges of the Great Depression.

6. Roosevelt was a man of tremendous determination who developed great upper body strength and endurance.

7. Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century.

8. Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation through the Great Depression.

9.

President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill.

Mahatma Gandhi and his followers begin a 200 mile march to the salt beds of Jalalpur.

The United States and the world suffer from the Great Depression.

Haile Selassie I becomes the Emperor of Ethiopia.

The character of Betty Boop makes her debut in "Dizzy Dishes".

10. Great Depression. USSR Collectivizes Agriculture. Empire State Building. The Star-Spangled Banner Named U.S. National Anthem. Franklin Roosevelt Elected President.