Chapter 24 & 25

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By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated

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In 1934, strong criticism of the New Deal came from

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The Dawes Plan of 1924

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The German sinking of the American ship Reuben James

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The Secretary of State of the Harding administration was

Charles Evans Hughes

The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over

Czechoslovakia

The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was

Eleanor Roosevelt.

President Franklin Roosevelt's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned

Europe

As part of his foreign policy, President Hoover moved to withdraw American troops from

Haiti

John Collier is associated with New Deal

Indian policies.

In 1929, a fascist-led government was in power in

Italy

In 1934, US-Soviet relations soured in part because the United States demonstrated little interest in stopping the expansion of

Japan

The Tripartite Pact was a defensible alliance among

Japan, Germany, and Italy.

The American ambassador to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plight was already hopeless was

Joseph Kennedy

In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

President Roosevelt froze all Japanese assests in the US

The New Deal program that created utility cooperatives for rural Americans was the

Rural Electrification Administration

All of the following nations were signatories to the Five-Power Pact of 1922 EXCEPT

Russia

To oversee activities in the stock market, in 1934 Congress established the

Securities and Exchange Commission.

Which of the following statements regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is FALSE?

The State Department assumed the Japanese would never attack American interests.

Which of the following statements about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany is FALSE?

Upon coming to power in 1933, Hitler called his new government "the Weimar Republic."

Germany began World War II in Europe days after

a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia

In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan

allowed the US to loan weapons to England, to be returned or paid for when the war was over.

The Neutrality Act of 1937

allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the United States if they paid cash.

The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940

approved the first peacetime draft in American history

The Five-Power Pact of 1922 dealt with

armament limitations

The Washington Conference of 1921

attempted to prevent a global naval arms race.

During the Second New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt

became more willing to attack corporate interests openly.

In July 1940, opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public

believed Germany posed a direct threat to the US

All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition EXCEPT

big-business owners.

In 1934, the American Liberty League was formed

by wealthy conservatives who strongly opposed the New Deal.

The principle New Deal government aid to women during the 1930s was in the form of

cash assistance.

Much of Father Charles Coughlin's outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration revolved around the issue of

changing the banking and currency system.

President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England

circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts

In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt

closed all banks for a short period.

Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt

declared that the United States would remain neutral.

The Social Security Act of 1935

did not begin making payments to participants for years.

In the American West, New Deal programs

disproportionately benefited the region, with more funding than any other part of the country.

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

established a national minimum wage.

In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt carried out international policies that

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"

expanded initiatives begun under Herbert Hoover

One of the major effects the New Deal had on the United States was that it

fostered stronger and more varied interest groups.

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935

gave government the authority to force employers to accept labor unions.

In the 1930s, the industrial union movement

grew more militant and powerful.

In the 1930s, the Congress of Industrial Organization

grew out of a dispute within the American Federation of Labor.

In 1935, Senator Huey Long

had proposed a national wealth-sharing plan that involved heavily taxing the wealthiest Americans.

During President Franklin Roosevelt's early days in office,

he promised to take drastic, even warlike, action against economic conditions.

In 1934, Dr. Francis Townsend attracted widespread national support for a plan that

helped pave the way for the Social Security system.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court came from

his desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.

All the following statements regarding the New Deal and women are true EXCEPT that

in general, women were major critics of the New Deal.

The Neutrality Act of 1935

included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict

The National Recovery Administration of 1933 did all of the following EXCEPT

increase competition between companies.

In 1932, the Hoover administration, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria,

issued warnings to the Japanese government.

Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet member in American history, was secretary of

labor.

During the first year of the National Recovery Administration,

large producers consistently dominated the code-writing process.

In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the United States

occurred before the United States declared war on Germany

In response to the breakout of the civil war in Spain, the US government joined with Britain and France in an agreement to

offer no help to either side

The "Second New Deal" was launched partly in response to the

persistence of the Great Depression.

The election of 1936

produced a new and enduring coalition of voters for the Democratic Party.

During the Harding administration, the United States

proposed a dramatic reduction in the fleets of the United States, Britain, and Japan.

The Economy Act of 1933

proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries.

Beginning in 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

protected the assets of bank depositors.

During its first year, the Civil Works Administration

put four million people to work.

The Civilian Conservation Corps

put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech

received a decidedly hostile response by the American people

Under the New Deal, African Americans

received more sympathy than under most previous administrations.

During the 1937 sit-down strike of General Motors, the federal government

refused to intervene in the dispute.

In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover

repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

In 1941, the Atlantic Charter

saw the United States and England claim to share common principles

During the 1920s and 1930s, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy

seemed to grow in the U.S. as it became apparent that Italy would invade Ethiopia.

In the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt

selected Henry Wallace as his new running mate.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant.

In the 1930s, industrial unionism was

strengthened, partly, by New Deal legislation.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt decided

that he should try to balance the federal budget.

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established

the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

All of the following programs were part of the Second New Deal EXCEPT

the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

By the end of 1938,

the New Deal had largely come to an end.

In September 1941,

the United States extended lend-lease privileges to the Soviet Union

During the recession of 1937,

the economy was almost as bad as during the worst economic period of the Hoover administration.

In 1937, regarding the organizing of industrial labor,

the great majority of strikes were settled in favor of the unions.

One long-term consequence of the New Deal was that

the national government assumed responsibility for the basic welfare of the people.

During the 1930s, the sit-down strike

was a new and controversial labor tactic.

The America First Committee

was a powerful lobby against U.S. involvement in the war.

The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933

was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act

was declared unconstitutional in large part by the Supreme Court.

President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court

was eventually defeated in Congress.

New Deal policy toward American Indians, as led by John Collier,

was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism.

The Works Progress Administration of 1935

was much larger than previous programs of its kind.

In 1937, Anschluss

was proclaimed by Hitler

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

was signed with wide international acclaim

The Munich agreement of 1938

was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt

African Americans employed by New Deal relief programs

were among the first to be released when funds ran out.

The Works Progress Administration provided federal assistance to

artists, sculptors, writers, and musicians.

All of the following occurred as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT

significant reduction in poverty in the region.

In what became known as the 1933 "bombshell" message, Franklin Roosevelt declared that

America would reject any international agreement on currency stabilization


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