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GCSE USA Booklet 2 Flashcards

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What does FERA stand for?

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Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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What is the first N of NANSPETCHEF and what 2 organisations did it set up?

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NIRA and PWA and CWA

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Give 2 aims of the New Deal

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Get USA back to work, protect savings, provide for sick, old and unemployed, make industry and agriculture productive again

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Name 3 high profile opponents of the New Deal

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Huey Long, Dr Francis Townsend and Father Coughlin

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Name 2 things the Social Security Acts did in the Second New Deal

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Financial help to sick and disabled, pensions for elderly and widows, unemployment insurance schemes

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6
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What did the NRA set up to improve factories and how many factories signed up?

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Blue Eagle Badge Scheme and 2 million

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How many black Americans were employed by the CCC?

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200,000

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What was the EBA and what did it do?

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Emergency Banking Act opened 5000 trustworthy banks

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9
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What nickname was given to useless jobs

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Boondoggling

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10
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How much money did the PWA spend?

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$3 billion

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11
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How many women were employed by the CCC?

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8000

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12
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How many jobs did the WPA create in how many years?

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8,000,000 in 8 years

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13
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Why was the AAA contradictory?

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Shared better farming methods but also set quotas

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14
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Which organisation did the NRA try to close and in which year?

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Schechter Poultry Corporation, 1935

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Name 3 things the PWA built

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Schools, dams, bridges, airports

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16
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Who was FDR’s Secretary for Labour

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Frances Perkins

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17
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How did the TVA help farmers?

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By irrigating land

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18
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In which month and year was FDR elected?

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November, 1933

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What was the name of the big trade union set up in 1935?

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Committee for Industrial Organsation (CIO)

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How much did FERA give to states and name 3 things they bought?

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$500 million and soup kitchens, blankets, employment schemes and nursery schools

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21
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The WPA set up an organisation to take photos of farm land. What was it called?

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Farm Security Administration Photographic Project

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Which part of the Second New Deal forced employers to allow unions?

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National Labour Relations Act or Wagner Act

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23
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How many corrupt officials did Francis Perkins remove?

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59

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24
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Which organisation replaced the AAA in the Second New Deal?

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Soil Conservation Act

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25
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What did the share the wealth scheme want to cap personal fortunes at and annual income?

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$3 million and $1 million

26
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How many strikes were there in 1937 and what % were settled in favour of workers?

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4700 strikes of which 80% were in favour of workers

27
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How many people were hired by the CCC?

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2.5 million

28
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In which month and year did FDR become President?

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March, 1934

29
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How many people were still unemployed by 1941?

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6 million

30
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Which Second New Deal agency supplied electricity to areas not previously supplied?

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Rural Electrification Administration

31
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What was the EA and what did it do?

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Economy Act and cut government employee’s wages by 15%

32
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What name is given to the period of time between the Presidential election and becoming President?

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Lame-duck period

33
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What was the name of FDR’s wife?

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Eleanor Roosevelt

34
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What was the main role of the CCC?

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To create National Parks and accessibility to them

35
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What was FDR accused of being like after threatening the Supreme Court judges?

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A dictator or a fascist

36
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Name 2 things the NRA did to improve factory conditions

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Improved working conditions, outlawed child labour, fixed wages, fixed sensible production levels

37
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Name the two laws of 1934 designed to help Native Americans

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Native Reorganisation Act and Indian Reservation Act

38
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What did FDR do for the USA every Sunday and how many people listened?

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Fireside chats and 60 million

39
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How many Supreme Court judges did FDR threaten to sack?

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6

40
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Name a dam built by the TVA

A

Fontana

41
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Name 2 Republican policies the New Deal was against

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Laissez faire and rugged individualism

42
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Which union member was beaten up by Ford’s security force?

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Frankensteen

43
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What did Republicans claim had crippled FDR?

A

An STD

44
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What happened to Huey Long and in which year?

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Assassinated in 1935

45
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Name one of FDR’s advisors who helped stop corruption

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Harold Hopkins or Harold Ickes

46
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Name two famous films from the 1930s

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Gone with the wind and the Wizard of Oz

47
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Which film showed the fate of Okies who had been evicted from their homes during the Depression?

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The Grapes of Wrath

48
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How many homes had radios by 1939?

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28 million homes

49
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Which comics were first published in the 1930s?

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Superman and Batman

50
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Which basketball team became famous by touring the world?

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Harlem Globetrotters

51
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How much did the US government spend per day on the war by 1945?

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$250 million per day!

52
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How many machine guns and warships did the USA produce during WW2?

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2.6 million machine guns and 86,000 warships

53
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How many workers were there in factories during WW2?

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14 million

54
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Which policy gave war resource to Britain and the USSR during WW2?

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The Lend Lease

55
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What did the USSR receive during the Lend Lease?

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7000 tanks, 18,700 aircraft and 400,000 jeeps

56
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How many black Americans gained jobs during WW2?

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2 million

57
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How many women joined the workforce during WW2?

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7 million

58
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How many Japanese-Americans were sent to relocation centres during WW2?

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100,000

59
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What did FDR introduce in 1941 to help black American workers?

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The Fair Employment Practices Comission (FEPC)

60
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What does CORE stand for?

A

Congress of Racial Equality

61
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What did CORE do in 1947?

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16 CORE activists travelled from northern to southern states in the Journey of Conciliation

62
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What did the Journey of Conciliation show?

A

Southern states were still discriminating against black Americans on interstate buses

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