GCSE USA Booklet 2

Question 1

What does FERA stand for?

Answer 1

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Question 2

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

Answer 2

NIRA and PWA and CWA

Question 3

Give 2 aims of the New Deal

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Name 3 high profile opponents of the New Deal

Answer 4

Huey Long, Dr Francis Townsend and Father Coughlin

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Blue Eagle Badge Scheme and 2 million

Question 7

How many black Americans were employed by the CCC?

Answer 7

200,000

Question 8

What was the EBA and what did it do?

Answer 8

Emergency Banking Act opened 5000 trustworthy banks

Question 9

What nickname was given to useless jobs

Answer 9

Boondoggling

Question 10

How much money did the PWA spend?

Answer 10

$3 billion

Question 11

How many women were employed by the CCC?

Answer 11

8000

Question 12

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

Answer 12

8,000,000 in 8 years

Question 13

Why was the AAA contradictory?

Answer 13

Shared better farming methods but also set quotas

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Schechter Poultry Corporation, 1935

Question 15

Name 3 things the PWA built

Answer 15

Schools, dams, bridges, airports

Question 16

Who was FDR’s Secretary for Labour

Answer 16

Frances Perkins

Question 17

How did the TVA help farmers?

Answer 17

By irrigating land

Question 18

In which month and year was FDR elected?

Answer 18

November, 1933

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Committee for Industrial Organsation (CIO)

Question 20

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

Answer 20

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

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Farm Security Administration Photographic Project

Question 22

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

Answer 22

National Labour Relations Act or Wagner Act

Question 23

How many corrupt officials did Francis Perkins remove?

Answer 23

59

Question 24

Which organisation replaced the AAA in the Second New Deal?

Answer 24

Soil Conservation Act

Question 25

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

Answer 25

$3 million and $1 million

Question 26

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

Answer 26

4700 strikes of which 80% were in favour of workers

Question 27

How many people were hired by the CCC?

Answer 27

2.5 million

Question 28

In which month and year did FDR become President?

Answer 28

March, 1934

Question 29

How many people were still unemployed by 1941?

Answer 29

6 million

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Rural Electrification Administration

Question 31

What was the EA and what did it do?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Lame-duck period

Question 33

What was the name of FDR’s wife?

Answer 33

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 34

What was the main role of the CCC?

Answer 34

To create National Parks and accessibility to them

Question 35

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

Answer 35

A dictator or a fascist

Question 36

Name 2 things the NRA did to improve factory conditions

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Name the two laws of 1934 designed to help Native Americans

Answer 37

Native Reorganisation Act and Indian Reservation Act

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Fireside chats and 60 million

Question 39

How many Supreme Court judges did FDR threaten to sack?

Answer 39

6

Question 40

Name a dam built by the TVA

Answer 40

Fontana

Question 41

Name 2 Republican policies the New Deal was against

Answer 41

Laissez faire and rugged individualism

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Frankensteen

Question 43

What did Republicans claim had crippled FDR?

Answer 43

An STD

Question 44

What happened to Huey Long and in which year?

Answer 44

Assassinated in 1935

Question 45

Name one of FDR’s advisors who helped stop corruption

Answer 45

Harold Hopkins or Harold Ickes

Question 46

Name two famous films from the 1930s

Answer 46

Gone with the wind and the Wizard of Oz

Question 47

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

Answer 47

The Grapes of Wrath

Question 48

How many homes had radios by 1939?

Answer 48

28 million homes

Question 49

Which comics were first published in the 1930s?

Answer 49

Superman and Batman

Question 50

Which basketball team became famous by touring the world?

Answer 50

Harlem Globetrotters

Question 51

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

Answer 51

$250 million per day!

Question 52

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

Answer 52

2.6 million machine guns and 86,000 warships

Question 53

How many workers were there in factories during WW2?

Answer 53

14 million

Question 54

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

Answer 54

The Lend Lease

Question 55

What did the USSR receive during the Lend Lease?

Answer 55

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

Question 56

How many black Americans gained jobs during WW2?

Answer 56

2 million

Question 57

How many women joined the workforce during WW2?

Answer 57

7 million

Question 58

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

Answer 58

100,000

Question 59

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

Answer 59

The Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)

Question 60

What does CORE stand for?

Answer 60

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 61

What did CORE do in 1947?

Answer 61

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

Question 62

What did the Journey of Conciliation show?

Answer 62

Southern states were still discriminating against black Americans on interstate buses