Great Depression PowerPoint Worksheet
1. What is the term for when prices of goods and materials rise rapidly but
people’s wages and salaries do not?
2. Where in Europe did economic troubles after WWI first begin? (2
countries)
3. What had happened to Germany’s money by 1923?
4. What was the name of the plan created to help Germany’s economy?
5. Besides decreasing the amount of Germany’s war payments and helping
reorganize the country’s banks, what else did the Dawes Plan do?
6. Why did the U.S. want to return to being an isolationist country after WWI?
7. What did many people use to buy stocks?
8. What day was known at “Black Tuesday” and why?
9. How much of the U.S. population was unemployed by 1933?
10. What were “Hoovervilles”?
11. What was the nickname of the group of people who created the New Deal?
12. Which president passed the New Deal legislation after being in office for
100 days?
13. What did the New Deal create?
14. What agency was under the supervision of the Army?
15. What agency still exists today and focused on modernizing rural areas?
16. How many people did the WPA help to employ?
17. What did the NRA help industries do?
18. When did the depression finally begin to end in the U.S.?