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Which of the following new deal programs was designed to provide employment and promote conservation
CCC
President frankiln supported americans wartime aims in his speech on the four freedoms. Those were allof the following except
Oppression
The AA proposed to solve the farm problem by
Raising prices by reducing aggricultural production
Upton Sinclairs novel the jungle was instrumental in gaining congressional legislation for the regulation of
Production of food and drugs
The most signifigant new deal reform entacted in 1935 was the
social security act
Huey long attravted a following in the mid 1930’s with his
Share are wealth program
Sacco and vanzetti were convicted of murder primarly because they were
Anarchst and italian immigrants
The event that triggerd the outbreak in WW1 in europe was
Assasanation of arch duke franz ferdinand
During WW2 germany, italy, and japan were known as the _____ powers
Axis
“rosue the riveter” was
Graphic imafe of a glamorous machanist
All of the following ammendments were passed during the progressive era in america except
15th
The us was motivated to develop marshal plan in 1947 due to
the desire to create strong european markets for american goods.
President Harry S. Truman orders the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
to persuade japan to surrender
The contoversy over fundamentalsm in the 1920’s came to greates focous in the
scopes trial
Theodore rosevelt believed
Every president should use the bully pulpit
The major problem of american farmers during the great depression was
overproduction
The battle of midway in the pacific
broke the back of japanese naval power and halted the japanese advance in the pacific
by 1934 what precent of american workers were unemployes
25%
What new deal program did the supreme court declare unconstitutional
AAA
Farmers recieved help from what new deal measure
AAA
AAA proposed to solve farm problem by
raising priceces by reducing aggricultural production
Most progressives were commited to
Using tools of scientific inquiry
During WW2, racially discriminatory hiring practices in defence industries were prohibited by
President tosevelts executive orfer establishing FEPC
What does NOT describe the american economy in the few years before the 1929 crash
Being re distributed downwards
