History Exam 3- 1302

Question 1

What did FDR call for in the 1932 election?

Answer 1

balanced government
criticized hoover for gov spending

Question 2

Glass-Steagall Act

Answer 2

barred commercial bank

Question 3

National Industrial Recovery Act

Answer 3

set standards in wages, production,and prices

Question 4

Civilian Conservation Corps

Answer 4

unemployed work on projects

set unemployed young men to work on projects like forest preservation, flood control, and the improvement of national parks and wildlife preserves

Question 5

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Answer 5

• raise farm prices
• paying farmers to plant less
• destroy crops already in fields

Question 6

New Deal housing policy and previous government policy

Answer 6

• priv bank mortgage
• fed gov built low-rent housing
• gov involved in housing market

Question 7

New Deal programs Supreme Court overturned

Answer 7

NRA & AAA

Question 8

Reason 1930s workers demanded more than better wages

Answer 8

american factories at the ouset of the new deal were mini dictatorships in which unions were rare; workers could be beaten by supervisors and fired at will, and management determined the length of the workday and speed of the assembly line

Question 9

“Share Our Wealth”

Answer 9

Huey Long- confiscation of most of the wealth of the richest americans to finance grant of 5,000 and a guaranteed job and annual income for all citizens

Question 10

What did the Second New Deal focus on?

Answer 10

economic security

Question 11

Works Progress Administration

Answer 11

New Deal agency that helped create jobs for those that needed them. It created around 9 million jobs working on bridges, roads, and buildings.

Question 12

Social Security Act of 1935

Answer 12

• system of : unemployed insurance
• , old age pensions,
• aid to disabled, poor, etc.

Question 13

Supporters of FDR during election of 1936

Question 14

Reason FDR wanted to change the balance of Supreme Court

Answer 14

fear invalidate the second new deal

Question 15

John Maynard Keynes overturned earlier economists ideas of what?

Answer 15

• sanctity of balanced budgets.
  -argued large-scale government spending was necessary

Question 16

Eleanor Roosevelt’s impact on position as First Lady

Answer 16

she transformed the role of first lady, turning it into a position with no formal responsibilities into a base for political action

Question 17

Reason stigma emerge around public assistance

Answer 17

black workers to least generous assistance programs

Question 18

How did the New Deal help to expand racism/segregation?

Answer 18

African americans were excluded from new deal programs

Question 19

The Popular Front

Answer 19

communist sought to ally w socialists and new dealers in movements for social change. specifically, by urging reform of the capitalist system rather than revolution

Question 20

The Scottsboro case

Answer 20

9 young black men were arrested for the rape of two white women
- despite the weakness of the evidence against the ‘scottsboro’ boys and the fact that one of the 2 accusers recanted, alabama authorities put them on trial 3 times and 3 times won convictions

Question 21

What ended the Great Depression?

Answer 21

WW2; american men sent to the war front, leaving jobs in defense and war industries

Question 22

Difference between FDR and his predecessors on foreign policy

Answer 22

internationalism vs isolationism

Question 23

Japan’s overseas activities during the 1930s

Answer 23

invaded china in 1931 and 1937 to expand its military and economic power

Question 24

Fascism

Answer 24

a radical form of totalitarian government in which a dictator uses propaganda and brute force to seize control of all aspects of national life (like nazism)

Question 25

Reasons Americans wanted to stay out of WWII

Answer 25

Isolationism; they believed they should focus on issues within the country, seeing as what happened after the great depression

Question 26

“Cash and Carry”

Answer 26

Said that the sale of arms had to be paid for in cash and transported by british ships.

Question 27

America First committee members

Answer 27

Henry ford, Father Coughlin, Charles A. Lindbergh

Question 28

Reasons FDR gave for running for 3rd term

Answer 28

The international situation was too dangerous and domestic recovery too fragile.

Question 29

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 29

Authorized military aid so long as the countries promised to return it all after the war.

Question 30

Results after U.S. first entered WWII

Answer 30

experienced a series of military losses

Question 31

“D-Day”

Answer 31

june 6, 1944; the allied forces, including the americans arrive at normandy, france.

Question 31

Allied invasion of Italy prepared allies for “D-Day” by…

Question 32

“Final Solution”

Answer 32

the mass extermination of “undesirable peoples”
(handicapped, jews, slavs, homosexual, gypsies)

Question 33

Results of WWII on United States

Answer 33

Defined the u.s’ military strength; economic expansion

Question 34

Office of War Information

Answer 34

radios, film and press to give the war an ideological meaning.

Question 35

“Rosie the Riveter”

Answer 35

The female industrial laborer, depicted as muscular and self reliant

Question 36

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 36

included scholarships for education for veterans

Question 36

Taste of freedom women experienced during WWII

Answer 36

Doing mens jobs for mens wages, and sometimes engaging in sexual activity while unmarried.

Question 37

Bracero Program

Answer 37

mexicans were encouraged to immigrate, but were not granted citizenship

Question 38

Native Americans during WWII

Answer 38

WWII brought many American Indians closer to the mainstream of American life by allowing them to serve in the army and other jobs in war industries.

Question 39

Asian-American experience during WWII

Answer 39

• Chinese war experience was paradoxical; more than 50,000 fought.
• A nationality quota for Chinese immigrants was established
• tide of hatred rose towards the japanese community

Question 40

Executive Order 9066

Answer 40

Ordered the relocation of all persons of japanese descent from the West Coast

Question 41

Korematsu v. United States

Answer 41

The supreme court denied the appeal of Fred Korematsu, a japanese citizen who had been arrested for refusing to present himself to internment.

Question 42

African American soldiers experiences during WWII

Answer 42

they allowed but restricted the number of black enlistees; black soldier in some cases had to give up their seats on railroad cars to accommodate nazi prisoners of war.

Question 43

Fair Employment Practices Commission

Answer 43

manages and ensures the equality in defense jobs

Question 44

Manhattan Project

Answer 44

a top secret program in which american scientists under J. Robert Oppenheimer developed an atomic bomb

Question 45

Reason U.S. dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Answer 45

it was almost alone among major japanese cities; it was a test

Question 46

Reason it was difficult for U.S. to reject demands of Soviet Union after WWII

Answer 46

stalin’s troops had won the war on the eastern front

Question 47

yalta conference of 1945

Answer 47

roosevelt and churchill entered only a mild protest against the soviet’s plans to retain control of the baltic states (estonia, latvia, and lithuania)