1. AHSGE Chapter 9 1
The Great Depression and World War II
Causes of the Great Depression
• October 29, 1929 – stock market____________, millions of dollars were
lost, _______________closed, workers lost their jobs and
_______________skyrocketed.
• This led to a long period of high ______________and increased
______________called the Great Depression.
Collapse of the Farm Economy
• During the 1920s and 1930s farmers produced more ___________than
consumers need. Food prices _____________and many farmers
declared__________________.
• A drought developed between 1933 and 1936. The soil became
very_____________. Huge ____________blew the top soil away.
_______________called this experience and these lands the Dust Bowl.
Thousands moved from the ________________and moved to the Pacific
Coast looking for_______________.
• People who were out of work set up _______________of tents and shacks
called Hoovervilles after then ________________President Herbert
Hoover.
• A group of WWI ____________wanting their war bonuses early marched
on Washington demanding______________. They set up shacks near the
White House until they were paid. Hoover sent in ___________to break up
the camp. Soldiers killed four people and the public ___________Hoover.
Democrats won next election.
Roosevelt’s New Deal
• Franklin D. Roosevelt became the new president and instituted a series of
_____________policies and programs to boost the economy and put
______________people to work. This __________________is known as
The New Deal.
• It was based on three R’s: Relief, _____________and Reform.

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CHUNK #1 The New Deal Turn to page 124. Graphic Organizer – Pick three
programs from the New Deal, and answer the following questions for each.
Name of program Explanation of program Who did the program helped
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2.
3.
Roosevelt’s New Deal
• Agricultural Adjustment Act – gave ___________to farmers and
government paid farmers not to grow ____________so food prices would
go up.
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) – TVA built ______________dams to
bring cheap _______________to the South including Alabama.
• Social Security Act (SSA) – guaranteed ____________income for all
workers at age 65.
• Fair Labor Standards Act – raised the minimum__________, set max for
work hours and ended child ___________under age 16.
• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) – provided employment for
______________men between the ages of 17 and 23. They worked in the
national ______________system.
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) – insured
_____________up to $100,000 in case of bank____________.

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Totalitarianism
• Totalitarian governments have _______political party or group which
maintains complete control under a ______________and bans all others.
Italy
• Benito Mussolini – leader of Italy whose __________ideas were known as
fascism.
Japan
• Hirohito- ___________of Japan
• In 1931, the Japanese army without any ___________from the Japanese
government invaded the province of________________. Military leaders
then established their own national cabinet and _____________with
democracy.
Germany
• Adolf Hitler –_____________party’s Fuhrer (leader).
• Claimed Aryan race (_____________people of non-Jewish descent) were
_____________and deserved to conquer others.
• Blamed all of Germany’s problems on the ___________and those nations
that _____________the war reparations at the Treaty
of_________________.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Joseph Stalin – leader who believed in Socialism (political idea where the
___________was in charge of everything and ____________farmers worked on
collective farms). ___________Communist Party and military of anyone he
considered disloyal to him. Between 1.5 million and 7 million Soviet citizens were
arrested and ___________in this purge.
Rejection of Peace
• Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact –____________of 63 countries to promise to
use _______________rather than war to ___________political
differences except for cases of self-defense.
• Even though Italy, Germany and Japan signed the __________Pact they
continued to exert their _____________beyond their borders through war.

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Japanese Aggression
• Invasion of Manchuria and control of major cities along the
____________coast.
Italian Aggression
• Mussolini attacked _____________in 1935. Signed an anti-communist pact
with Germany and _____________thus forming the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
Axis.
German Aggression
• Hitler moved German troops into the _____________violating the Treaty
of Versailles.
• France and Britain did _______________because they did not want
another ___________with Germany.
• Hitler then annexed (___________) Austria to Germany and met
no_____________.
• Next he ____________the__________________.
• British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French premier Daladier
hoped to _____________were through a policy of appeasement (giving into
Hitler’s______________).
• Munich Conference – Chamberlain and Daladier accepted Hitler’s
______________of Sudetenland in _______________for his promise not
to claim any further ________________in Czechoslovakia.
The Invasion of Poland – World War II Begins
• About 6 months after the _____________Conference, Hitler invaded the
rest of________________.
• August 1939 – Hitler signs a ___________________pact with the U.S.S.R.
agreeing to _____________Poland when they invaded.
• Great Britain agreed to __________Poland if Germany____________.
• September 1, 1039 – Germany invaded an ______________and
unprepared________________.
• Blitzkrieg – (lightening war) used against Poland. Constant
_______________using armored tanks and_______________.
• September 3, 1939 – Great Britain and France __________war on
Germany.
• September 17, 1939 –_____________invades Poland. Poland
______________three weeks later.

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United States Involvement
• Neutrality Act – gave the President the _______________to ban arms
sales to _________________nations.
• Ludlow Amendment – required a _________________vote before the
United States could declare war. It failed in Congress by a
_______________margin.
• Cash and Carry – U.S. allowed the Allies to buy ______________with
payment up front and required them to provide their
own_______________. U.S. hoped to maintain _________________while
helping to defeat Germany.
• Lend-Lease Act – gave the President the authority to___________, sell, or
lease war _____________to countries whose survival was vital to
U.S._____________.
• June 1941 – Hitler _____________Stalin and invaded the USSR.
• United States sent large amounts of supplies to ____________to prevent
German____________.
Problems in Southeast Asia
• French Indochina – Japan _____________military bases here in
September 1940, despite strong _______________from the U.S.
• September 26, 1940 – U.S. declared an _____________on scrap metal, oil
and _____________fuel to Japan.
• September 27, 1940 – Japan announced a military _____________with
Italy and Germany.
CHUNK #2 Pearl Harbor Turn to page 129. Read Pearl Harbor. History Frame – Answer
the following questions from the passage you have read.
Setting Where and When? –
Characters Who were the key players? –
Plot What happened? –
Outcome What were the results? –

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Pearl Harbor
• December 7, 1941 – Japanese attacked _____________Harbor.
• 8 battleships and 13 other naval ____________were seriously damaged
or______________.
• 200 _______________destroyed.
• Over 3000 military _______________wounded or killed.
• President Roosevelt called December 7th “a date which will live
in_______________.”
• Congress _______________war on Japan.
• Germany and Italy _____________their pledges to Japan and declared
______________on the U.S.
• U.S. now _______________in World War II.
On the Home front
Women’s Participation
• Women left their _____________and went to work at factory jobs
______________by the men who were fighting the war.
• Rosie the Riveter became a ____________for all working women during
World War II.
Rationing
• Rationing System – limited the use of certain ____________foods and
materials. People cold not purchase certain _____________without a
government-issued coupon. This was done in order to focus all resources on
the____________.
Japanese Internment
• Executive Order 9066 – ordered all ____________Americans away from
military facilities out of fear they were ________________with the
enemy.
Stemming the Tide
• Midway – In June 1942, the U.S. Naval and air forces ____________heavy
blows on the Japanese fleet, forcing them to_____________.
• The Japanese lost four of their prized aircraft ______________and
252_____________.
• Considered the ____________point in the_____________.

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Stalingrad
• Stalingrad –____________forces held off a German attack for
several______________.
• Russians were able to ____________the Germans and force their
_______________.
• Without _____________to the oil reserves near Stalingrad, the other
German forces _____________for the Russian interior.
• Considered the ____________point in the war for the USSR.
North Africa
• Operation Torch – name given to the _____________between Britain and
the U.S. against the ____________army in North Africa.
• First major _______________of the war for the ______________.
Turning the Tide
Italy
• Due to a successful ____________of Italy, Mussolini
was______________.
• The new Italian ______________joined the Allies in
______________Germany.
Normandy
• Operation Overlord – the larges ____________(water) assault ever
undertaken. Took place in_____________.
• D-Day – A fleet of 6000 Allied __________launched the great invasion of
the __________of Normandy. Allied losses were very high.
• After invasion, Allies were able to ____________Paris from four years of
German________________.
Germany’s defeat
• Allied forces __________in.
• Hitler committed _____________on April 30, 1945.
• Germany surrendered __________________one week later.
• V-E Day - Victory in _____________Day. Allied countries celebrated
the_____________.

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The Holocaust
• Holocaust – term given to Hitler’s systematic _______________of over 6
million _______________people.
• Concentration Camps – Hitler’s camps that held Jews, ____________, and
socially undesirables. These people were starved and worked to death.
Gas_______________, huge ovens and mass graves were
_______________at these camps.
• Auschwitz – One of the worst of all the _______________camps.
• Nuremberg Trials –______________held after the war to prosecute
individuals _______________for the concentration camps and other
various war________________.
Japan’s Defeat
• General Douglas MacArthur –______________of troops in the Pacific, who
wanted to concentrate all the United States _____________on Japan.
• Kamikaze – Japanese for _____________wind. Pilots who would willingly
____________their planes into Allied naval ships.
The Atomic Bomb
• Manhattan Project – Special ___________that involved over 120,000
people in 37 factories and ____________spread across 19 states and
Canada. Purpose was to build an ______________bomb.
• Enola Gay – Name of the B-29 ___________that carried the first atomic
bomb to________________.
• Hiroshima – first Japanese city to be _____________by the atomic bomb
on Aug. 6, 1945.
• Nagasaki – the 2nd Japanese City destroyed by the atomic bomb three
_____________later on August 9, 1945.
• In the wake of these ___________and the Soviet Unions declaration of
war, Japan ______________to General Douglas MacArthur on August 14,
1945.
• World War II was______________.