New Deals and new directions in international relations, 1933-45, Key Individuals- only from Hodder

Question 1

When was Franklin Delano Roosevelt president

Answer 1

1933-45

Question 2

How many terms was Roosevelt president?

Answer 2

4

Question 3

Who was Roosevelt’s VP in 1933-1941

Answer 3

John Nance Garner of Texas

Question 4

Who was Roosevelt’s VP 1941-45

Answer 4

Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa

Question 5

Who was Roosevelt’s VP Jan 20 1945- April 12 1945

Answer 5

Harry S. Truman of Missouri

Question 6

Who did Roosevelt win over?

Answer 6

Herbert Hoover

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The Governor of Nevada

Question 8

Who did Roosevelt choose to run the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Answer 8

Harry Hopkins

Question 9

Which two popular leaders on the left was Roosevelt scared of

Answer 9

Huey Long
Father Charles Coughlin

Question 10

Who was the novelist that came up with a scheme whereby the unemployed would be out to work in state run co operatives

Answer 10

Upton Sinclair

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Postmaster General James A. Farley

Question 12

Who was prosecuted by the NIRA for breaking its codes of practise- The sick chicken case, 1935

Answer 12

The Schechter Brothers

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Francis Townsend

Question 14

Who was one of the most politically active first ladies?

Answer 14

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 15

Who was one of the only women to hold government office as secretary of labour from 1933 to 1945

Answer 15

Francis Perkins

Question 16

Who became the first female ambassador (to Denmark) in 1933

Answer 16

Ruth Bryan Owen

Question 17

Give an example of which African American Roosevelt employed in government at the National Youth Administration (NYA)?

Answer 17

Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 18

Who did Roosevelt make as the new comissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Answer 18

John Collier

Question 19

Who announced after the Munich Agreement further rearmament

Answer 19

Adolf Hitler

Question 20

Who was the Republican’s candidate in the 1940 presidential election

Answer 20

Wendell Willkie

Question 21

Who was the British PM that Roosevelt met on the British battleship Prince of Wales, anchored off the Newfoundland coast of Canada?

Answer 21

Winston Churchill

Question 22

Who was the secretary of state in spring 1941 who met with a Japanese Ambassador to resolve differences between the two countries?

Answer 22

Cordell Hull

Question 23

Who was the japanese ambassador that Cordell Hull meet in hopes of resolving differences between US and Japan?

Answer 23

Kichisaburo Nomura

Question 24

Who was the supreme commander in June 1944 during the second world war

Answer 24

Dwight D Eisenhower

Question 25

Who was the chief of the army west coast command who dismessed any such talk on the treatment of Japanese Americans as damned nonsence

Answer 25

General John L Dewitt

Question 26

Which attorny general said his state was for whites only not japanese americans

Answer 26

Attorney-General of Idaho

Question 27

What is the name of the fictional female worker used by the US government to encourage women to help with the war effort

Answer 27

Rosie the Riveter

Question 28

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

Answer 28

A. Philip Randolph