Unit 10 Test 2.27.16 Flashcards
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the “farm problem” by
reducing agricultural production
Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained national popularity by
promising to give every family $5,000
The first Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by
taxing processors of farm products
When Franklin Roosevelt asumed the presidency in March 1933
he received unprecedented congresional support
The _______________________ was probably the most popular New Deal program; the __________________ was one of the most complex; and the ____________________ was the most
Civilian Conservation Corps; National Recovery Act; Tennessee Valley Authority
Match each New Dealer below with the fedral agency or program with which he or she was closely identified.
A. Robert Wagner 1. Department of Labor
B. Harry Hopkins 2. Public Works Administration
C. Harold Ickes 3. Works Progress Administration
D. Frances Perkins 4. National LaborRelations Act
A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
Franklin Roosevelt’s initial “managed currency” policy aimed to
stimulate inflation
All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s except
farmers’ failure to use steam tractors and other modern equipment
The National Recovery Act (NRA) failed largely because
it required oo much self sacrifice on the part of industry, labor, and the public
The most vigorous “champion of the dispossessed” - that is, the poor and minorities - in Roosevelt administration circles was
Eleanor Roosevelt
The most immediate emergency facing Franklin Roosevelt when he became president in March of 1933 was
the collapse of international trade
The Works Progress Administration was a major ____________________ program of the New Deal; the Public Works Administration was a long-range ____________________ program; and the Social Security Act was a major _____________________ program.
relief; recovery; reform
The Democratic party platform on which Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency in 1932 called for
a balanced budget
Both ratified in the 1930s, the Twentieth Amendment _______________________; the Twenty-First Amendment __________________________.
shortened the time between the presidential election and inauguration; ended prohibition
Franklin Roosevelt’s _________________________ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will.
affliction with infantile paralysis
The Glass-Steagall Act
created the Federeal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits
While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover tried to get the president-elect to commit to
an anti-inflationary policy that would make much of the New Deal impossible
In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by
experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to
reverse the forced assimilation of Native Americans into white society by establishing tribal self-government
Match each Nw Deal critic below with the “cause” or slogan that he promoted.
A. Father Coughlin 1. “social justice”
B. Huey Long 2. “every man a king”
C. Francis Townsend 3. “a holy crusade for liberty”
D. Herbert Hoover 4. old age pensions
A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
Prominent female social scientists of the 1930s like Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead brought widespread contributions to the field of
anthropology
President Roosevelt’s chief “administrator of relief” was
Harold Hopkins
In 1935, President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to
help farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl move to better land
The phrase “Hundred Days” refers to
the first months of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency
One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that
African Americans shifted from their Republican allegiance and became a vital element in the Democratic party
The 1936 election was most notable for
its reflection of a bitter class struggle between the poor and the rich
The National Labor Relations Act proved most beneficial to
unskilled workers
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was most notable for
providing moderate social reform without radical revolution or reactionary fascism
The Social Security Act of 1935 provided all of the following EXCEPT
a. old-age pensions.
b. unemployment insurance.
c. health care for the poor.
d. support for the blind and physically handicapped.
c. health care for the poor.
The primary interest of the Congress of Industrial Organizations was
the organization of all workers within an industry
After Franklin Roosevelt’s failed attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court,
the court began to support New Deal Programs
The federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority was seen as a particular threat to
the private electric utility industry
During the 1930s
the national debt doubled
The Wagner Act of 1935 proved go be a trailblazing law that
gave labor the right to bargain collectively
The most controversial aspect of the Tennessee Valley Authority was its efforts in
electrical power
The strongest criticisms leveled against the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) drew criticism that it
represented the first stage of “creeping socialism.”
Most “Okies” in California escaped the deprivation and uncertainty of seasonal farm labor when they
found jobs in defense industries during World War II
The Federal Securities Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission aimed to
provide full disclosure of information and prevent insider traing and other fraudulent practices
By 1938, the New Deal
had lost most of its momentum
As a result of the 1937 “Roosevelt recession,”
Roosevelt adopted Keynesian (planned deficit spending) economics
Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to
California
President Roosevelt’s “Court-Packing” scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court
more sympathetic to New Deal programs
On the following, the one LEAST related to the other three is
a. George W. Norris.
b. the Tennessee Valley Authority.
c. Muscle Shoals.
d. the Securities and Exchange Commission.
d. the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed the nonagression pact with the Soviet Union,
Germany invaded Poland and started World War II
Franklin Roosevelt undermined the London Economic Conference because
any agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurts America’s recovery from depression
One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term of office was
a formal recognition of the Soviet Union
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war,
Americans would be prohibited from sailing on the ships of warring nations
Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the aggressive actions pf Germany, Italy and Japan by
retreating further into isolationism
In September 1938 in Munich, Germany,
Britain and France consented to Germany’s taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
increased America’s foreign trade
Franklin Roosevelt’s sensational “Quarantine Speech” in 1937 resulted in
a wave of protest by isolationists
Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because
he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against dictators
America’s neutrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 allowed
Spain to become a fascist dictatorship
Roosevelt’s recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly
in hopes of developing an diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany
As part of the Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt developed more generous policies of
removing American controls on Haiti, Cuba, and Panama
As a result of Franklin Roosevelt’s withdrawl from the London Economic Conference
the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened
Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the United States resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
a. balancing the scales between dictators and U.S. Allies by trading with neither.
b. a decline in the navy and other armed forces.
c. abandonment of the traditional policy of freedom of the seas.
d. making no distinction whatever between aggressors and victims.
a. balancing the scales between dictators and U.S. Allies by trading with neither.
President Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign trade policy
lowered tariffs to increase trade
Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini’s invasiion of ____________________, Hitler’s invasion of ________________, and Franco’s overthrow of the republican government of _______________.
Ethiopia; Czechoslovakia; Spain
From 1925 to 1940 the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequesnce:
embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease
In 1938 the British and French bought peace with Hitler at the Munich Conference by effectively handing over the nation of
Czechoslovakia
In promising to grant the Philippines independence, the United States was motivated by
the realization that the island were economic liabilities
By the mid-1930s, there was a strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to
forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless it is first approved by popular referendum
On the eve of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans
still wanted to keep the United States out of war
After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk,
Congress allowed the arming of United States merchant vessels
Congress’ first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to
pass a conscription law
The surprise Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was
Wendell L. Wilkie
During the 1930s, the United States admitted _____________________ Jewish refugees from Nazism.
about 150,000
Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty.
A, C, B
In 1940, in exchange for American destroyers, the British gave the United States
eight valuable naval bases in the Western Hemisphere
The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonagression treaty was
Poland
The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those in Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that
bombing would divert essential military resources
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because
President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaysia or the Philippines
Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his
belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States
made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets
Which of the following nations was NOT conquered by Hitler’s Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?
Finland
Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, (C) Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
A, C, B
Probably the greatest obstacle in America’s acceptance of more Jewish refugees from Europe was
a failure of moral imagination and belief that the Holocaust could actually be happening
By 1940 American public opinion had come to favor
providing Britain with “all aid short of war.”
Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his
belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis
In 1940, Republican presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie avoided deepening the sharp divisions among the American people when he
avoided attacking Roosevelt for his increasingly interventionist policies
America’s neutrality effectively ended when
France fell to Germany
Japan believed that it was forced into war with the United States because Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan
withdraw from China
The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following EXCEPT
a. the catalyst that caused American factories to prepare for all-out war production.
b. another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases deal.
c. the point when all pretense of American neutrality was abandoned.
d. a direct challenge to the Axis dictators.
b. another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases deal.
