APUSH 8

Question 1

Government spending during depression periods and high taxes during periods of boom. (Tax and Spend) These principles were supported by FDR’s “Brain Trust”.

Answer 1

Keynesian Economics

Question 2

Governor of Louisiana during the great depression he criticized FDR for not going far enough. His “share the wealth” program demanded all incomes exceeding $1 million be confiscated.

Answer 2

Huey Long

Question 3

Legislative programs focusing on REFORM begun by FDR in 1935 when the first attempt to end the depression failed.

Answer 3

Second New Deal

Question 4

Passed by new Dealers, this granted labor the right to organize, and use collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Act established a gov’t board to ensure democratic elections in Unions.

Answer 4

Wagner Act (NLR Act)

Question 5

2nd New Deal reform measures that outlawed child labor, established a minimum wage, and a 40 hour work week.

Answer 5

Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 6

Part of the New Deal’s foreign policy which aimed at strengthening U.S. ties with Latin America.

Answer 6

Good Neighbor Policy

Question 7

Prior to Lend-Lease, FDR’s policy of supplying Great Britain and easing U.S non-interventionist fears of war, while violating the neutrality acts.

Answer 7

Cash and Carry Policy

Question 8

Passed by congress during WWII it provided money for veterans to adjust to post war life.

Answer 8

GI Bill of Rights

Question 9

The unofficial U.S. foreign policy adopted after WWI and lasted until the U.S. was drawn into WWII.

Answer 9

Isolationism

Question 10

June 6, 1944 date of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII opening up a second front in the battle against Germany.

Answer 10

D-Day

Question 11

Signed by FDR authorizing the War Department to force Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes and hold them in relocation camps for the remainder of the war.

Answer 11

Japanese Internment/
Executive Order 9066

Question 12

The most expensive and important U.S. research project during WWII, it developed the A-bomb.

Answer 12

Manhattan Project

Question 13

Truman’s domestic program to head off a post war depression and address important social issues facing the nation.

Answer 13

Fair Deal

Question 14

The surge in the American birthrate between 1945-1965 which peaked in 1957 with 4.3 million births.

Answer 14

Baby Boom

Question 15

The economic aid provided to European Nations shortly after WWII to help stop the spread and CONTAIN Communism and rebuild the war torn economies of Western Europe

Answer 15

Marshall Plan

Question 16

The U.S. foreign policy adopted by the Truman Administration in which the U.S. would limit communism to those countries where it already existed.

Answer 16

Containment

Question 17

The doctrine, enunciated by Harry Truman in 1947, that the United States would provide economic aid to countries that said they were threatened by communist expansion.

Answer 17

Truman Doctrine

Question 18

Aggressive action taken by the Soviets to drive western powers out of Berlin which was in the Soviet controlled sector of Germany. Truman ordered an Airlift to break the blockade.

Answer 18

Berlin Blockade 1948

Question 19

Led by Strom Thurmond southern Democrats who opposed Truman’s desegregation of the U.S. army and his policy toward race-relations.

Answer 19

Dixiecrats

Question 20

North Atlantic Treaty Organization- a mutual defense pact formed in 1949 by the U.S and major western European countries.

Answer 20

NATO

Question 21

First artificial satellite launched into space by the USSR in 1957. Began the space race between the U.S. and Russia plus a great deal of hysteria and fear of nuclear war

Answer 21

Sputnik

Question 22

Southern Christian Leadership Conference was the Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956

Answer 22

SCLC

Question 23

John Foster Dulles advice and policy during the Eisenhower years to use the threat of nuclear war to prevent war and the spread of Communism. Later called MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction).

Answer 23

Massive Retaliation

Question 24

First two American citizens executed during peacetime for giving atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets. Like the Alger Hiss Case—controversial case involving another American turncoat who perjured himself before a congressional investigation fueled anti-communist hysteria known as McCarthyism

Answer 24

The Rosenbergs

Question 25

Late 1940’s early 1950’s Red scare investigation called the House of Un-American Activities Committee

Answer 25

HUAC