Quiz on Unit 22 Flashcards
The ___ cleared forest land and helped build state parks.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The overall name for FDR’s program was the ___.
New Deal
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, met with Hitler in Munich, Germany, in September of 1938 and
reached an agreement.
Franklin Roosevelt was governor of ___ before being elected President.
New York
The ___ was a new experiment in unified planning for an entire program.
TVA
Humorist ___ was a star of stage and screen in the early 1930s
Will Rogers
Two popular forms of entertainment in the 1930s were television and the ___.
radio
Social Security provided ___ and ___.
unemployment; retirement benefits
World War II started on September 1, 1939 with
Germany’s invasion of Poland
Many people who lived in the Dust Bowl moved to ___.
California
In 1933 the U.S. gave ___ to the Communist government of the Soviet Union
official recognition
At the worst point of the Depression about ___ of the nation’s workers were unemployed
one-fourth
President Hoover blamed the depression on
international economic conditions
The ___ created the status of most favored nation for countries conducting trade with the U.S.
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Roosevelt took the United States monetary system off ___.
the gold standard
The Dust Bowl was an area of
western Kentucky and Oklahoma
Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were dictators who came to power before
World War II
Huey Long, the boss of Louisiana politics, was known as the ___.
Kingfish.
The Roosevelt Administration pursued a policy of being a ___ and ___ with the countries of Latin America.
partner; good neighbor
Conservative churches such as the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God had ___ in membership, while liberal denominations suffered declines.
dramatic increases
