UH TILLORY 3
During World War II, Chinese Americans
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During World War II, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines was ended by the development of
All these answers are correct.
The Battle of Midway in 1942
All these answers are correct.
The Works Progress Administration provided federal assistance to
All these answers are correct.
After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from
Australia and New Zealand.
The secretary of state of the Harding administration was
Charles Evans Hughes.
In World War II, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was
Chester Nimitz.
The Munich conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over
Czechoslovakia.
In the 1944 elections,
Democrats increased their control of the House.
The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was
Eleanor Roosevelt.
As part of his foreign policy, President Herbert Hoover moved to withdraw American troops from
Haiti.
Which of the following statements regarding the New Deal and women is NOT true?
In general, women were major critics of the New Deal.
John Collier is associated with New Deal
Indian policies.
During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was
Italy.
The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marine Corps was the Battle of
Iwo Jima.
The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance between
Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Codes of fair practice were part of:
NRA.
During World War II, Allied bombers targeted
None of these answers is correct.
In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of
Paris.
Which of the following did NOT occur as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Poverty in the region was significantly reduced.
In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States.
The New Deal program that created utility cooperatives for rural Americans was the
Rural Electrification Administration.
Which of the following nations was NOT a signatory to the Five-Power Pact of 1922?
Russia
To oversee activities in the stock market, in 1934, Congress established the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Which of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II is NOT true?
The United States government has never admitted wrongdoing.
Germany began World War II in Europe days after.
a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia.
The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by:
a sharp decrease in government spending.
In 1937, after Japanese pilots sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in China, President Roosevelt
accepted Japan's claim that the bombing had been an accident.
In early 1937, FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by:
adding up to six additional members.
In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the braceros program, which
admitted Mexican contract laborers into the United States for a limited time.
In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan
allowed the U.S. to loan weapons to England to be returned when the war was over.
The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940
approved the first peacetime draft in American history.
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 United States.
All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition EXCEPT
big business owners.
In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to give fifty American destroyers to England
both circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts and was in response to requests by the U.S. Ambassador to London.
During the first year of the National Recovery Administration,
both of these occurred: industry saw prices rise, and industrial production declined.
The "Second New Deal" was launched in response to
both the persistence of the Great Depression and growing political pressures.
In 1934, strong criticism of the New Deal came from
both the political far right and the political far left.
During World War II, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created
by President Roosevelt to stop black protesters from marching on the capital.
In 1934, the American Liberty League was formed
by wealthy conservatives who strongly opposed the New Deal.
Much of Father Charles Coughlin's outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration revolved around the issue of
changing the banking and currency system.
In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt
closed all banks.
In the 1930s, industrial unionism was
considerably strengthened by New Deal legislation.
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 in funding.
The United States government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
during the first years after U.S. involvement.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
established a national minimum wage.
President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"
expanded initiatives begun under Herbert Hoover.
In response to President Franklin Roosevelt's first days in office, the American people
felt a mixture of relief and hope.
One of the major effects the New Deal had on the United States was how 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.
Just before his election to the presidency in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was serving as:
governor of New York.
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 a strong record of progressive accomplishments.
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court came from
his desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.
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.
The election of 1936
produced a new and enduring coalition of voters for the Democratic Party.
The Economy Act of 1933
proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries.
In 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
protected the assets of small bank depositors.
The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to:
provide work relief for young men.
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.
Under the New Deal, African Americans
received more sympathy than under most previous administrations.
Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States
refused to accept large numbers of refugees.
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.
The greatest failure of the New Deal was its inability to:
restore economic prosperity and end record levels of unemployment.
In the case of Norris v. Alabama, the Supreme Court:
ruled that the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries denied Scottsboro defendants equal protection of the law.
In 1941, the Atlantic Charter
saw the United States and England claim to share common principles.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant.
During World War II, American women who worked outside the home
tended to be older than women who worked in the past.
In response to economic indices in the summer of 1937, 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.
All of the following were objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT:
the development of Smoky Mountain National Park.
During the recession of 1937,
the economy was as bad as during the worst 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 in how
the national government assumed a responsibility for the basic welfare of the people.
In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"
there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk.
Which of the following were NOT members of the "brain trust"?
union members.
During the 1930s, the sit-down strike
was a new and controversial labor tactic.
The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933
was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The Dawes Plan of 1924
was designed to help England and France make their debt payments to the United States.
President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court
was eventually defeated in Congress.
New Deal policy toward American Indians
was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism.
The Works Progress Administration of 1935
was much larger than previous programs of its kind.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
was permanently disabled after contracting polio.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
was signed to wide international acclaim.
In 1934, Dr. Francis Townsend attracted widespread national support for a plan that
was strongly supported by Congress.
African Americans employed by New Deal relief programs
were among the first to be released when funds ran out.
In the 1930s, the New Deal generally gave
work relief to men and cash assistance to women.
