Deck 20: Great Depression, New Deal, and Impending War, 1929-1939

Question 1

During the Great Depression, scarcity increased racial tensions all around the United States.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The purpose of the London Economic Conference was to

A) ​coordinate efforts to ease the global depression.
B) discuss raising British tariffs.
C) ​discuss British taxation policies.
D) discuss the financial conditions of British colonies.​
E) ​None of these are correct.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt ​reached out to Americans in a way that personalized the presidency.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Before his election to the presidency, Roosevelt had no political experience.​

Question 5

The alliance of Britain and France was known as the Axis Powers.​

Question 6

The worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl took place in 1935.​

Question 7

Like Hoover, Roosevelt did not believe in programs of direct relief.

Question 8

The Nuremberg Laws stripped __________________  of their civil rights.

A) ​communists.
B) ​homosexuals.
C) ​Jews.
D) ​political dissenters.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 9

After the stock market crash, American investment in Europe​

A) ​remained as it had before.
B) ​rose.
C) ​rose, then stabilized to the same levels as before the crash.
D) ​went down to zero.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 10

Between 1931 and 1936, __________________ different governments were formed in France.​

A) ​five
B) ​seven
C) ​eight
D) ​ten
E) ​twelve

Question 11

While outwardly neutral, Roosevelt wanted to help Britain and France should war break out in Europe.

Question 12

Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union ​

A) ​began a program of rapid industrialization.
B) ​began a program of state-run agriculture.
C) ​underwent the purging of state enemies, killing millions.
D) ​met agricultural and industrial production goals at a terrible human cost.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 13

At the time of the stock market crash of 1929. the United States was a debtor nation.​

Question 14

The stock market crash of 1929 did not directly cause the Great Depression.​

Question 15

In spite of the Great Depression, there was no outward critique of capitalism within the United States.​

Question 16

Which of these is not true about the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?​

A) ​It raised tariffs to the highest level in history.
B) ​It spurred economic recovery in Europe.
C) ​It had negative worldwide repercussions.
D) ​It was intended to protect U.S. manufacturers from foreign competition.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 17

After the stock market crash, Herbert Hoover predicted recovery in ​

A) ​three months.
B) ​one year.
C) ​sixty days.
D) ​two years.
E) ​six months.

Question 18

The onset of the Great Depression happened when the stock market crashed in October,

A) ​1927.
B) ​1928.
C) ​1929.
D) ​1930
E) ​1931.

Question 19

In 1931, Japan, desperate for access to raw materials invaded ​

A) ​Alaska.
B) ​Manchuria.
C) ​the Soviet Union.
D) ​French Indochina.
E) ​Korea.

Question 20

Hitler's government was ​

A) ​totalitarian.
B) ​racist.
C) ​militaristic.
D) ​nationalistic.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 21

Roosevelt's Braina Trust​

A) ​employed principles of the Progressive movement.
B) ​were chosen for their expertise rather than their friendship with the president.
C) ​saw themselves as carrying forth Theodore Roosevelt's ad Woodrow Wilson's legacy.
D) believed that an active government could solve the nation's problems.​
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 22

The Social Security Act sought to alleviate hardships arising from​

A) ​unemployment.
B) ​poverty.
C) ​the death of the family breadwinner.
D) ​old age.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 23

Franklin Roosevelt won more than __________________  percent of the popular vote in the election of 1936.​

A) ​50
B) ​55
C) ​60
D) ​70
E) ​75

Question 24

Which of the following was not a critic who argued that the New Deal did not go far enough?

A) ​Huey Long
B) ​Francis Townsend
C) ​Father Charles Coughlin
D) ​Harry Hopkins
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 25

Keynesian economic theory

A) ​advocated centralized economic planning.
B) ​advocated government spending.
C) ​recommended deficit spending.
D) ​guided Roosevelt's New Deal.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 26

A regressive tax placed most of the tax burden on

A) ​the wealthy.
B) ​women.
C) ​the poor.
D) ​immigrants.
E) ​the middle class.

Question 27

Roosevelt appointed Mary McCleod Bethune ​

A) ​Secretary of Labor.
B) ​the director of Negro affairs for the WPA's National Youth Administration.
C) ​Director of Negro Economics.
D) ​Secretary of Agriculture.
E) ​Secretary of Commerce.

Question 28

Which of the following was not a New Deal measure initiated during Roosevelt's administration?

A) ​the Home Owner's Loan Corporation.
B) ​the Federal Emergency Relief Agency.
C) ​the National Industrial Recovery Act.
D) ​the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
E) ​the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

Question 29

The Bank Holiday closed banks for ​

A) ​eight days.
B) thirty days.
C) ​forty days.
D) ​sixty days.
E) ​ninety days.

Question 30

Under the National Recovery Act's codes,​

A) ​businesses were exempt from anti-trust laws.
B) ​labor was granted federal protection for unions.
C) ​labor was granted the right of collective bargaining.
D) ​those who complied could display the symbol of the Blue Eagle, which would, in turn, draw consumers.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 31

The New Deal was Roosevelt's program for dealing with​

A) ​the spread of fascism in Europe.
B) ​the Great Depression.
C) ​immigration reform.
D) ​racism in the South.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 32

During the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover

A) ​sought to manipulate the tariff.
B) ​called for private and local response to the crisis.
C) ​believed in the power of the free market to reverse its downturn.
D) ​advocated for volunteerism rather than government aid.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 33

The Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA)​

A) ​was made up of those who supported the New Deal.
B) ​had a completely domestic basis with no international ties.
C) reached out to unemployed workers.
D) ​excluded African Americans.
E) ​was largely ignored by the U.S. government.

Question 34

The Share Our Wealth campaign was launched by ​

A) ​Franklin Roosevelt.
B) ​Hugh Johnson.
C) ​Huey Long.
D) ​Harold Ickes.
E) ​Henry Ford.

Question 35

Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the ​

A) ​Supreme Court.
B) ​president's cabinet.
C) ​Senate.
D) ​House of Representatives.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 36

The National Recovery Administration​

A) negotiated with business and labor to regulate wages.​
B) ​sought to regulate production quotas.
C) ​set ceilings and floors on prices for consumer goods.
D) sought voluntary compliance even though it had the power to enforce its regulations.​
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 37

Which of the following was not included as part of the Public Works Administration?

A) ​help for the Tennessee Valley.
B) ​the building of hospitals, roads, and airports.
C) ​a $3.3 billion budget.
D) ​Keynesian ideas about "priming the pump."
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 38

Roosevelt's first months in office were known as the ​

A) ​Sixty Days.
B) ​ Ninety Days.
C) ​ Hundred Days.
D) ​ ​Two Hundred Days.
E) ​ ​Three Hundred Days.

Question 39

The Bonus Army marched on __________________ , demanding their payment for their service during World War I.​

A) ​Boston
B) ​Washington, D.C.
C) ​New York City
D) ​Philadelphia
E) ​Chicago

Question 40

During the fireside chats, Roosevelt would address​

A) ​Congress.
B) ​different world leaders.
C) ​the American people.
D) ​the Supreme Court.
E) the nation's governors.

Question 41

Kristallnacht was​

A) ​an international meeting of world leaders to discuss the crisis in 1930's Europe.
B) ​a demonstration in New York City calling for Roosevelt and his administration to amend immigration quotas.
C) ​a demonstration by German Jews against Hitler's anti-Semitic policies.
D) ​a large-scale attack on Jewish property in Germany and Austria during which thirty thousand Jews were sent to concentration camps.
E) ​a demonstration held in Chicago where American Jews called for U.S. intervention in Europe.

Question 42

The Congress of Industrial Organizations organized workers according to ​

A) ​trade.
B) ​industry.
C) ​gender.
D) ​race.
E) ​political affiliation.

Question 43

France and Great Britain declared war on Germany after Hitler launched an invasion of ​

A) ​Czechoslovakia.
B) ​the Soviet Union.
C) ​Austria.
D) ​Poland.
E) ​France.

Question 44

In August 1939, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with ​

A) ​Benito Mussolini.
B) ​Joseph Stalin.
C) Michinomiya ​Hirohito.
D) ​Neville Chamberlain.
E) ​Franklin Roosevelt.

Question 45

The Scottsboro Trials exhibited prejudice towards​

A) ​Mexican Americans.
B) ​African Americans.
C) ​Puerto Rican Americans.
D) ​Communists.
E) ​foreign-born women,

Question 46

Which of the following received funding from the Works Progress Administration to produce original works?

A) artist Diego Rivera
B) ​photographer Dorothea Lange
C) ​actress Katherine Hepburn
D) ​actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin
E) None of these are correct.​

Question 47

With his court packing plan, Roosevelt tried to reorganize __________________  in order to appoint judges more favorable to his policies.​

A) ​the U.S. Supreme Court
B) ​circuit courts
C) ​district courts
D) state supreme courts
E) All of these are correct.

Question 48

Kristallnacht ​took place in November,

A) ​1935.
B) ​1936.
C) ​1937.
D) ​1938.
E) ​1939.

Question 49

After the launch of Japan's undeclared war on China​ in 1937

A) ​Roosevelt stopped sending military equipment of Chinese nationalists.
B) ​Roosevelt initiated an embargo against Japan.
C) ​Roosevelt feared hurting trade relations with both China and Japan in the face of global economic instability.
D) ​Roosevelt was confident that Americans would support a war against Japan after the massacre at Nanjing.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 50

By the end of the New Deal, __________________  Indian tribes had voted in favor of reorganization.​

A) ​sixty-two
B) ​eighty-four
C) ​one hundred
D) ​one hundred seventy-four
E) ​two hundred

Question 51

Before the Tennessee Valley Authority, fewer than __________________  percent of farms in the region had access to electricity.​

A) ​5
B) ​10
C) ​15
D) ​20
E) ​25

Question 52

Initially, the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain employed the policy of __________________  towards Adolf Hitler.​

A) ​isolationism.
B) ​neutrality.
C) ​preemptive warfare.
D) ​appeasement.
E) ​preventive warfare.

Question 53

Congress passed three Neutrality Acts from ​

A) ​1934-1936.
B) ​1935-1937.
C) ​1937-1939.
D) ​1939-1941.
E) ​1940-1941.

Question 54

Germany and Italy formalized their military alliance in

A) ​1937.
B) ​1938.
C) ​1939.
D) ​1940.
E) ​1941.

Question 55

Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to his empire in ​

A) ​1937.
B) ​1938.
C) ​1939.
D) ​1940.
E) ​1941.

Question 56

The Dustbowl refers t o severe droughts during the 1930s in ​

A) ​the South.
B) ​the West Coast.
C) ​the Great Plains.
D) ​the Northwest.
E) the ​Gulf region.

Question 57

John Lewis founded the​

A) ​Congress of Industrial Organizations.
B) ​American Federation of Labor.
C) ​United Auto Workers.
D) ​Teamsters.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 58

Which of the following is true about women during the Great Depression?​

A) ​Birth rates went down.
B) ​African American women could rarely get work.
C) ​Many women faced abandonment by their husbands.
D) ​Women found work, but often because they were paid less than men.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 59

The Roosevelt Recession began in the fall of ​

A) ​1933.
B) ​1934.
C) ​1935.
D) ​1936.
E) ​1937.

Question 60

Which of the following is not true about the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?​

A) ​The program fostered local control.
B) ​The program encouraged scientific management of lands and water sources.
C) ​The program encouraged assimilation of native peoples into mainstream American culture.
D) ​It out governance in the hands of tribal councils.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 61

Talk About:  Keynesian Economic Theory​

Question 62

Talk About:  deficit spending​

Question 63

Talk About:  concentration camps​

Question 64

Talk About:  Great Depression​

Question 65

Talk About:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt​

Question 66

Talk About:  Bank Holiday​

Question 67

Talk About:  Reconstruction Finance Corporation​

Question 68

Talk About:  volunteerism​

Question 69

Talk About:  moratorium?

Question 70

Talk About:  Hawley-Smoot Tariff​

Question 71

Talk About: stock market crash​

Question 72

Talk About:  Brains Trust

Question 73

Talk About:  totalitarianism​

Question 74

Talk About:  London Economic Conference​

Question 75

Talk About: " My Day"​

Question 76

Talk About:  command economy​

Question 77

Talk About:  gold standard​

Question 78

Talk About:  New Deal​

Question 79

Talk About:  Bonus Army​

Question 80

Talk About:  fireside chats