Eduqas GCSE History The Development of the USA 1929 to 2000 overview quiz quiz

Overvalued shares bought on credit and a sudden loss of confidence

A government takeover of all the banks that froze every American's savings

A trade war with Europe that suddenly closed off all overseas markets

A bumper harvest that flooded the country with cheap food and goods

Reading, writing and arithmetic

Relief, recovery and reform

Rights, rules and regulations

Roads, railways and rivers

Roosevelt flatly refused to spend any government money at all, leaving the unemployed with no help whatsoever

Ordinary Americans rejected every one of the new agencies and refused to take part in any of the schemes

The problem was so large, opposition limited it, and unemployment only ended with the Second World War

The banks stayed closed for the whole decade so nobody could borrow money

It deepened the Depression and pushed unemployment far higher than it had been even in the worst years of the 1930s

It had no real effect on the American economy or on the level of jobs at all

It caused mass bankruptcies as wartime factories were forced to shut down across the country

War production ended unemployment and made the USA the world's strongest economy

That segregated schools were unconstitutional

That segregation in schools was perfectly legal and could continue

That the buses across the southern states must remain fully segregated

That black Americans could not register to vote in any state election

A sudden rise in the bus fare that angered passengers across the city

Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger

A serious bus crash that injured many passengers in the city centre

A strike by the bus drivers who were demanding higher wages and shorter hours

They wanted faster integration into white society and trusted the federal courts to deliver it

They opposed the civil rights movement altogether and wanted protest to stop completely

They rejected non-violence and integration and stressed black pride and self-defence

They actively supported segregation and the keeping of separate facilities

A movement of young people demanding a strict return to the conformity of the 1950s

An organised military movement led by young recruits keen to fight in the Vietnam War

A business boom driven by young entrepreneurs setting up new companies

Young people rejecting mainstream values, embracing peace, free love and new music

Rising casualties, the unpopular draft and televised brutality turned opinion against it

The war was quickly and cheaply won, yet protesters still complained loudly about it

The government had banned all reporting of the war, leaving Americans angry at the secrecy

There were no American combat troops involved at any stage of the fighting in Vietnam

Withdrawing from all world affairs and returning to a policy of strict isolation

Stopping the spread of communism through aid and military action

Joining the Soviet Union in a close alliance against the nations of Western Europe

Disarming the military and cutting US armed forces back to almost nothing

A welfare programme set up to give relief and pensions to the poorest American families

A peaceful civil rights campaign that worked to win equal voting rights for black Americans

Sweeping, often baseless accusations that people were communists, ruining careers

A government space programme created to put an American astronaut on the Moon

He lost a presidential election to his rival and had to step down from office at once

He retired early because of serious ill health that stopped him carrying on as president

He was personally defeated leading troops on the battlefield in the Vietnam War

The Watergate cover-up, exposed by secret tapes, led him to resign facing impeachment