Abeka 11th Grade US History Test 10

provided thousands of jobs for young men

Civilian Conservation Corps

Franklin D Roosevelt's description of his progressive legislation

Relief, Recovery, Reform

allowed the president to provide war materials to any nation whose defense was vital to American security

Lend-Lease Act

provided relatively low cost power to farms, communities, and industries

Tennessee Valley Authority

established a board to mediate labor-management disputes

National Labor Relations Act

controlled wages and prices, limiting competition among businesses

National Recovery Administration

increased food prices by paying farmers to not grow crops

Agricultural Adjustments Act

created a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance

Social Security Act

Who was the first woman to be appointed to a Cabinet positon?

Frances Perkins

What was the most far-reaching of all New Deal undertakings?

Tennessee Valley Authority

Which ammendment repealed prohibition?

21st

With what country did the US renew diplomatic relation in 1933?

Russia

Which nation was the first to be absorbed by Nazi Germany?

Austria

How was Czechoslovakia robbed of Sudetenland in 1938?

Munich Pact

In 1939, what nation joined Germany to invade Poland?

Soviet Union

What act of congress established the cash-and-carry principal for dealing with warring nations?

Neutrality Act of 1937

What nation began the wave of agression that led to the US entrance to WWII?

Japan

What group became the most decorated infantry unit of all of the US army by the end of WWII?

Nisei

Which battled marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Battle of Midway

In which battle did the japanese lose almost all of their remaining ships and planes?

Battle of Leyte Gulf

What group assisted in WWI by relaying secret messages using their native language?

Navajo code talkers

In which WW II battle was one of the war's most memorable photographs taken, showing a group of marines raising the American Flag?

Battle of Iwo Jima

What was issued in 1945 to call for Japan's unconditional surrender?

Postdam Declaration

Where was the Nazi leaders put on trial to account for their war crimes?

Nuremburg, Germany

What best describes Herbert hoover's effort to combat the Great Depression?

appropriating funds for public works projects and a tarrif to protect american businesses

What best describes Franklin D Roosevelts effort to combat the Great depression?

spending large sums of money on public works project which would reduce unemployment and stimulate the economy

Why was the atomic bomb ultimately used against Japan?

using the atomic bomb would result in the least amount of deaths on both sides

Franklin D Roosevelt and his advisers advocated the economic theories of __?

John Maynard Keynes

What gave the president broad power to control banking policies and to reopen banks as he saw fit

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Who opposed the New Deal because it had not done enough to redistribute the nation's wealth

Huey Long

Who led the Flying Tigers in sorties against the Japenese in China

Claire L Chennault

Who was the head if the Nazi puppet government in Norway

Vidkun Quisling

What required all american men between 18-65 to register with their local draft boards

Selective training and service act

Who was the leader of Hitler's Afrika Korps

Erwin Rommel

The first navel battle in which the opposing vessels never sighted each other was ?

Battle of Coral Sea

The first city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb was?

Hiroshima

Leaders of the world gatheree in what cuty to draft the UN charter?

San Francisco

The United Nation was founded in June of what year?

1945

Which artist most popular work was American Gothic?

Grant Wood

What were the standards adopted by the film industry in 1930's?

Hays Code

What did Franklin D Roosevelt call his first economic stimulus plan?

New Deal

List the 3 Axis Powers?

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Give the full date of when the allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-day?

June 6, 1944

What American research and development undertaking led to the creation of atomic bomb?

Manhattan Project

What was the code name for the planned land invasion of the Japenese islands in 1945?

Downfall

What is remembered as the Nazi's systematic slaughter of 6 million jews during WW II?

Holocaust

communist dictator of the soviet union during WW I

Jospeh Stalin

supreme allied commander of Europe

Dwight D Eisenhower

emporer of Ethiopia when the italians conquired the nation

Haile Selassie I

dicator of spain during WW II

Francisco Franco

American general sent to fortify the Phillippines against a Japanese invasion

Douglas MacArthur

Nazi dicator who led Germany into WW II

Adolf Hitler

prime minister who led Great Britain through most of WWII

Winston Churchill

leader of the free french government

Charles De Gaulle

Franklin D roosevelt's secrety of state who made clear America's desire for peace

Cordell hull

Jewish emigre from Hungary whi helped develope the atomic bomb in the US

Edward Teller

the 99th pursuit squadron's first black-american commander

George S Roberts

led a group of 16 american B-25 bombers who raided Tokyo in 1942?

Jimmy Doolittle

facist dicator who led Italy into WW II

Benito Mussolini

Explain what caused the Great Depression and how the New Deal prolonged it. Give at least 4 reasons

1. easy credit and installment plans which encouraged debt

2. careless investment of the stock market

3. The new deal increased government spending and interference in american business

4. New Deal discouraged individuals initative, saving, and investments