New Deals and new directions in international relations, 1933-45, Key Individuals- only from Hodder Flashcards
When was Franklin Delano Roosevelt president
1933-45
How many terms was Roosevelt president?
4
Who was Roosevelt’s VP in 1933-1941
John Nance Garner of Texas
Who was Roosevelt’s VP 1941-45
Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa
Who was Roosevelt’s VP Jan 20 1945- April 12 1945
Harry S. Truman of Missouri
Who did Roosevelt win over?
Herbert Hoover
Who declared a bank holiday and closed every bank in the state in fears of the imminent collapse of an important banking chain in October 1932
The Governor of Nevada
Who did Roosevelt choose to run the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Harry Hopkins
Which two popular leaders on the left was Roosevelt scared of
Huey Long
Father Charles Coughlin
Who was the novelist that came up with a scheme whereby the unemployed would be out to work in state run co operatives
Upton Sinclair
Who took a secret poll to assess Huey Long’s popularity and was shocked to discover that up to four million people might vote for him in 1936
Postmaster General James A. Farley
Who was prosecuted by the NIRA for breaking its codes of practise- The sick chicken case, 1935
The Schechter Brothers
Who was the retired doctor who advocated old age pensions with a difference that everyone who was over the age of 60 and not in paid employment should receive $200 a month on the understanding that every cent of it was spent and none saved
Francis Townsend
Who was one of the most politically active first ladies?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who was one of the only women to hold government office as secretary of labour from 1933 to 1945
Francis Perkins
Who became the first female ambassador (to Denmark) in 1933
Ruth Bryan Owen
Give an example of which African American Roosevelt employed in government at the National Youth Administration (NYA)?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Who did Roosevelt make as the new comissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
John Collier
Who announced after the Munich Agreement further rearmament
Adolf Hitler
Who was the Republican’s candidate in the 1940 presidential election
Wendell Willkie
Who was the British PM that Roosevelt met on the British battleship Prince of Wales, anchored off the Newfoundland coast of Canada?
Winston Churchill
Who was the secretary of state in spring 1941 who met with a Japanese Ambassador to resolve differences between the two countries?
Cordell Hull
Who was the japanese ambassador that Cordell Hull meet in hopes of resolving differences between US and Japan?
Kichisaburo Nomura
Who was the supreme commander in June 1944 during the second world war
Dwight D Eisenhower
Who was the chief of the army west coast command who dismessed any such talk on the treatment of Japanese Americans as damned nonsence
General John L Dewitt
Which attorny general said his state was for whites only not japanese americans
Attorney-General of Idaho
What is the name of the fictional female worker used by the US government to encourage women to help with the war effort
Rosie the Riveter
Who wanted direct action and organised the March on Washington Movement for the discrimination in the war industries and the US armed forces for african americans
A. Philip Randolph
