Text pages 162-193

Question 1

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, b/f GD

Answer 1

Born 1882. 1905, married 5th cousin Eleanor Roosevelt. Graduated Columbia Law School. NY senate, assistant secretary of the navy. 1921, age 39, hit w/ polio. 1928, became governor of New York.

Question 2

First women in presidential cabinet

Answer 2

Frances Perkins, secretary of labor.

Question 3

First 100 days of Frank’s presidency

Answer 3

Created CCC, AAA, FERA, TVA, HOLC, NRA, PWA, FCA, FDIC. Stopped the run on banks. Emergency Banking Relief Act (banks reopen when Treasury Department ruled they were sound).

Question 4

CCC

Answer 4

Civilian Conservation Corps. Men 18-25, clear roads and trails, fight fires, built picnic areas. March 3, 1933-1941.

Question 5

AAA

Answer 5

Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Boost farm prices by reducing production, advise and assist farmers. May 12, 1933-ending mostly in 1936.

Question 6

FERA

Answer 6

Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Provide direct relief, like money of food. May 12, 1933-1936.

Question 7

TVA

Answer 7

Tennessee Valley Authority. Develop resources of Tennessee Valley and six other states. May 18, 1933-present.

Question 8

HOLC

Answer 8

Home Owners Loan Corporation. Help people refinance mortgages. June 13, 1933-1950

Question 9

NRA

Answer 9

National Recovery Administration. Revive American business, work with employers and labor unions to establish fair wages and hours, ended child labor, and right for unions to bargain collectively. June 13, 1933-1935.

Question 10

PWA

Answer 10

Public Works Administration. Employment on public works, building schools, city halls, and public gardens. June 13, 1933-1937.

Question 11

FCA

Answer 11

Farm Credit Administration. Credit system for farmers. June 16, 1933-1939 when became part of Department of Agriculture.

Question 12

FDIC

Answer 12

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. System for guaranteed individual bank deposits. Still in operation.

Question 13

Drought during GD

Answer 13

No rain in 1933-1936. Affected 10 states, Dakotas to Texas. Worst area, the Dust Bowl, affected parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.

Question 14

Dorothea Lange

Answer 14

1895-1965. Depression era portrait photographer.

Question 15

REA

Answer 15

Rural Electrification Administration. Electricity to farms. May 11, 1935-1939, became part of Department of Agriculture.

Question 16

Second New Deal

Answer 16

1935. Included Social Security Act, National Labor Relations Board, Works Progress Administration.

Question 17

NYA

Answer 17

National Youth Administration. Jobs and training for people ages 16-25. April 8, 1935-1942.

Question 18

WPA

Answer 18

Works Progress Administration. Employment on public works. April 8, 1935-1942.

Question 19

NLRB

Answer 19

National Labor Relations Board. Guarantee rights of workers. July 5, 1935-present.

Question 20

SSB

Answer 20

Social Security Board. Social security system. August 14, 1935-present.

Question 21

Mary McLeod Bethune

Answer 21

Director of Negro Affairs for NYA, consultant to US war secretary, consultant to UN charter conference. Founded National Council of Negro Women, served vice president of NAACP.

Question 22

Germany takes Czechoslovakia

Answer 22

March 1939

Question 23

Germany invades Poland

Answer 23

Sept. 1, 1939

Question 24

Great Britain and France declare war against Germany

Answer 24

Sept. 3, 1939

Question 25

Neutrality Act passed

Answer 25

Nov. 4, 1939

Question 26

Spring-Summer, 1940

Answer 26

Germany conquers Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.

Question 27

Pearl Harbor attack

Answer 27

Dec. 7, 1941

Question 28

Germany surrenders

Answer 28

May 8, 1945

Question 29

France surrendered to Germans

Answer 29

June 22, 1940

Question 30

Battle of Britain

Answer 30

July-October 1940. First London air raid Sept 7, 1940. Germans abandoned invasion plans in October.

Question 31

America siding with Britain

Answer 31

May 1940-March 1941. May, started building funds; September, peacetime draft. March, 1941, weapons and supplies to British.

Question 32

Axis powers

Answer 32

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 33

Allied powers

Answer 33

Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and United States.

Question 34

Spring-fall 1941.

Answer 34

Germany invading Soviet Union. Bombing raids on Great Britain ended. Submarine attacks intensified.

Question 35

Result of Pearl Harbor

Answer 35

Declaration of United Nations Jan 1, 1942.

Question 36

When Japan joined war

Answer 36

Joined war with the axis powers in Sept 1940.

Question 37

Women army corps

Answer 37

Army - WAAC: Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Navy - WAVES: Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service
Air Corps - WAFS: Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
Coast Guard: Women Reserves
Marine Corps: Women Marines.

Question 38

Production

Answer 38

16 million women in the workplace, replacing the men fighting. By 1943, US outproducing Germany, Italy, and Japan combined.

Question 39

Italy, Winter 1942-Summer 1943

Answer 39

July, 1943: Italian government overthrew Mussolini. Germany took over Italy.

Question 40

Fall 1942-Spring 1943

Answer 40

German conquered most of North Africa. Nov 9, 1942 British and American forces invaded. May 1943, Axis powers in Africa surrendered.

Question 41

D-Day

Answer 41

June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord. Allied troops landed in France. Quickly swept through Europe. Paris liberated August 25, then Brussels, Antwerp, and Luxembourg.

Question 42

Battle of Bulge

Answer 42

December 1944. Ardennes in Belgium, 101st Airborne Division and other troops trapped.

Question 43

V-E day

Answer 43

April 23, 1945: Russian troops entered Berlin. Germany surrendered May 8, 1945

Question 44

V-J day

Answer 44

August 15, 1945