Deck 7: The New Deal and Origins of World War II, 1932-1939

Question 1

The U.S. naval base called Guantanamo Bay is located in which country?

A) Haiti
B) Mexico
C) Cuba.
D) Dominican Republic
E) Nicaragua

Answer 1

Cuba.

Question 2

Who was the head of the black railroad porters?

A) John Heller
B) A. Phillip Randolph
C) Franklin Jones
D) W. Stewart Phillips
E) Joseph Miller

Answer 2

A. Phillip Randolph

Question 3

Who was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet?

A) Dorothy Dix
B) Frances Perkins
C) Susan B. Anthony
D) Harriet Collins
E) Deborah Elkins

Answer 3

Frances Perkins

Question 4

FDR sought the advice from a group of conservative, well educated individuals that became known as the

A) Trusted Advisors
B) Cabinet
C) Brain trust
D) Friends of FDR
E) Titans of Government

Question 5

Which government program was responsible for building the Lincoln Tunnel in NYC and the San Francisco-Oakland bay Bridge?

A) National Bridge & Tunnel Act
B) Public Works Administration
C) National Heritage Act
D) United States Highway and Bridge Act
E) Government for the States Act

Question 6

Not since President _____________ had an American president (FDR) enjoyed such influence over the nation's government

A) Jackson
B) Theodore Roosevelt.
C) Jefferson
D) Washington
E) Lincoln

Question 7

Regarding FDR's reaction to the return of the Bonus Army to Washington, a veteran supposedly said: " Hoover sent the army, FDR sent his ____."

A) Navy
B) wife
C) secretary of defense
D) police
E) National Guard

Question 8

What position did John Collier hold in the Roosevelt Administration?

A) Commissioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs
B) Vice-President
C) Secretary of Labor
D) Undersecretary of State
E) Secretary of the Treasury

Question 9

What was another name for the National Labor Relations Act of 1935?

A) Roosevelt Act
B) Wagner Act
C) Smith-Atkins Act
D) Union Legalization Act
E) Collective Bargaining Act

Question 10

The mayor of what city was killed while talking to President-elect Franklin Roosevelt?

A) New York
B) Washington, D.C.
C) Chicago
D) Boston
E) Los Angeles

Question 11

What year was the Social Security Act passed?

A) 1941
B) 1929.
C) 1933
D) 1935
E) 1940.

Question 12

What was the "flagship" program of what FDR called the "big bill?"

A) Social Security
B) Tennessee Valley Authority
C) Works Progress Administration
D) Medicare Act
E) Higher Ed Act.

Question 13

Another name for welfare is?

A) Dole
B) Play money
C) Phony money
D) Give away
E) Waste

Question 14

Which of the following was not passed during FDR's "100days?"

A) Tennessee Valley Authority Act
B) Agricultural Adjustment Act
C) Economy act
D) Beer and Wine Revenue Act
E) Social Security Act

Question 15

What year were the Philippines promised independence?

A) 1944
B) 1940
C) 1947
D) 1932
E) 1959

Question 16

What major change did FDR support that restored confidence in banks?

A) Declared a 30 day bay holiday.
B) Fired most bank presidents.
C) Repayment of personal loans.
D) Closed most of them.
E) Guaranteed deposits.

Question 17

Which country did FDR open trade and diplomatic relations with that shocked many Americans?

A) Japan
B) Hungary
C) China
D) Russia
E) Germany

Question 18

The first substantial development in the South outside of Virginia or the Atlantic Coast was the?

A) TWA
B) Alabama/Mississippi Bridge Project
C) Texas Panhandle Project
D) TVA
E) Florida Panhandle Project.

Question 19

The state that was devastated the most by the "Dust Bowl" of the 1930's was?

A) Alabama
B) Texas
C) California
D) Oklahoma
E) New Mexico

Question 20

Which of the following acts was ruled unconstitutional?

A) National Recovery Act
B) Social Security Act
C) Works Progress Administration
D) Public and Private Works Act
E) American Reinvestment Act

Question 21

__________ France was the part of France that was "independent' of German control.

A) Devon
B) Louver
C) Sauvignon
D) Vichy
E) Eastern

Question 22

What was the last name of the leader of Italy that Hitler formed an alliance with?

A) Patriaca
B) Ravini
C) Capuano
D) Bossini
E) Mussolini

Question 23

Who was the Republican nominee for president in 1936?

A) Thomas Dewey
B) Herbert Hoover
C) Alf Landon
D) Franklin Stewart
E) None of the above

Question 24

How many additional justices did FDR wish to appoint to the Supreme Court?.

A) 6
B) 9
C) 3
D) 4
E) 1

Question 25

What was the last name of the catholic priest who had a famous radio show in the 1930's?

A) O'Callahan
B) Hardy
C) Coughlin
D) Fairmount
E) Lowe

Question 26

What was the name of the economist who advocated budget deficits to stimulate the economy?

A) Robert Dammar
B) John Galbraith
C) Al Lewis
D) John Maynard Keynes
E) Fran Wright

Question 27

The German word "blitzkrieg" means?

A) Surprise attack, usually in the early morning
B) Outflanking the opposition
C) Rapid coordinated air and ground attacks
D) Three successive waves of tanks
E) Retreat as fast as possible

Question 28

Who was the Louisiana politician whose nickname was "the Kingfish"?

A) Tito Langone
B) Louis Garcone
C) Frank Marcuse
D) Huey Long
E) John Peabody

Question 29

What year did the depression "reappear" as unemployment skyrocketed again?

A) 1937
B) 1933
C) 1934
D) 1941
E) 1942