APUSH WW2 Quiz

Which of the following best explains a connection between policies intended to address the Great Depression and earlier Progressive Era reform policies?

Both sought to create a stronger financial regulatory system.

Which of the following best explains the main cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s?

Episodes of credit and market instability undermined the financial system.

Which of the following best explains the factor that most directly prompted United States entry into the Second World War in 1941 ?

Japan attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Which of the following best explains changes in the federal government resulting from the Great Depression?

Policymakers developed a limited welfare state to reduce the effects of mass unemployment and social upheavals.

Which of the following best explains a long-term political change resulting from the New Deal?

Political alignments shifted as African Americans came to support the Democratic Party.

Which of the following best explains the policy of the United States toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s?

Strong isolationist sentiments after the First World War left many Americans wary of involvement in another European conflict.

Which of the following best explains changes in migration patterns in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s?

The Great Depression of the 1930s and the increased demand for war production in the 1940s led many Americans to migrate to cities in search of economic opportunities.

In which of the following ways did the New Deal mark a departure from previous government practices?

The New Deal actively used government power to stimulate economic recovery.

Which of the following best explains how the United States sought to engage in world affairs in the 1920s and 1930s, the decades immediately following the First World War?

The United States used peace treaties and select military intervention to promote international order.