Quiz on Unit 22

Question 1

The ___ cleared forest land and helped build state parks.

Answer 1

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 2

The overall name for FDR’s program was the ___.

Answer 2

New Deal

Question 3

Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, met with Hitler in Munich, Germany, in September of 1938 and

Answer 3

reached an agreement.

Question 4

Franklin Roosevelt was governor of ___ before being elected President.

Answer 4

New York

Question 5

The ___ was a new experiment in unified planning for an entire program.

Answer 5

TVA

Question 6

Humorist ___ was a star of stage and screen in the early 1930s

Answer 6

Will Rogers

Question 7

Two popular forms of entertainment in the 1930s were television and the ___.

Answer 7

radio

Question 8

Social Security provided ___ and ___.

Answer 8

unemployment; retirement benefits

Question 9

World War II started on September 1, 1939 with

Answer 9

Germany’s invasion of Poland

Question 10

Many people who lived in the Dust Bowl moved to ___.

Answer 10

California

Question 11

In 1933 the U.S. gave ___ to the Communist government of the Soviet Union

Answer 11

official recognition

Question 12

At the worst point of the Depression about ___ of the nation’s workers were unemployed

Answer 12

one-fourth

Question 13

President Hoover blamed the depression on

Answer 13

international economic conditions

Question 14

The ___ created the status of most favored nation for countries conducting trade with the U.S.

Answer 14

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

Question 15

Roosevelt took the United States monetary system off ___.

Answer 15

the gold standard

Question 16

The Dust Bowl was an area of

Answer 16

western Kentucky and Oklahoma

Question 17

Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were dictators who came to power before

Answer 17

World War II

Question 18

Huey Long, the boss of Louisiana politics, was known as the ___.

Answer 18

Kingfish.

Question 19

The Roosevelt Administration pursued a policy of being a ___ and ___ with the countries of Latin America.

Answer 19

partner; good neighbor

Question 20

Conservative churches such as the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God had ___ in membership, while liberal denominations suffered declines.

Answer 20

dramatic increases