Deck 7: Great Depression, New Deal, and Impending War, 1929-1939

Question 1

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

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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 3

coordinate efforts to ease the global depression.

Question 4

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

Question 5

The Nuremberg Laws stripped __________________  of their civil rights.

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

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 9

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 10

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

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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 19

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 20

Hitler's government was ​

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

Question 21

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 22

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 23

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 24

The Share Our Wealth campaign was launched by ​

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

Question 25

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 26

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 27

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 28

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 29

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 30

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 31

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 32

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 33

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 34

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 35

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 36

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 37

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 38

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 39

The Bank Holiday closed banks for ​

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

Question 40

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 41

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 42

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 43

The Roosevelt Recession began in the fall of ​

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

Question 44

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 45

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 46

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 47

Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to his empire in ​

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

Question 48

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 49

Congress passed three Neutrality Acts from ​

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

Question 50

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 51

Germany and Italy formalized their military alliance in

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

Question 52

The Congress of Industrial Organizations organized workers according to ​

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

Question 53

The Scottsboro Trials exhibited prejudice towards​

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

Question 54

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 55

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 56

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 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

Kristallnacht ​took place in November,

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

Question 59

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 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

Term for identification:  volunteerism​

Question 62

Term for identification:  Great Depression​

Question 63

Term for identification: " My Day"​

Question 64

Term for identification:  Bank Holiday​

Question 65

Term for identification:  Brains Trust

Question 66

Term for identification:  Reconstruction Finance Corporation​

Question 67

Term for identification:  Bonus Army​

Question 68

Term for identification:  London Economic Conference​

Question 69

Term for identification:  gold standard​

Question 70

Term for identification:  deficit spending​

Question 71

Term for identification: stock market crash​

Question 72

Term for identification:  New Deal​

Question 73

Term for identification:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt​

Question 74

Term for identification:  concentration camps​

Question 75

Term for identification:  moratorium​

Question 76

Term for identification:  totalitarianism​

Question 77

Term for identification:  fireside chats

Question 78

Term for identification:  command economy​

Question 79

Term for identification:  Keynesian Economic Theory​

Question 80

Term for identification:  Hawley-Smoot Tariff​