Unit 22 Notgrass American History

True or False

President Hoover blamed the Depression on what?

Republican Policies

At the worst point of the Depression, about how many of the nation’s workers were unemployed?

One fourth

Franklin Roosevelt was governor of what state before being elected President.

New York

The overall name of FDR’s program was called what?

The New Deal

Roosevelt took the United States monetary system off what?

the gold standard

The Civilian Conservation Corps did what?

cleared forest land and helped build state parks

The TVA was a new experiment in what?

unified planning for an entire region

Social Security provided what?

unemployment and retirement benfits

What was Huey Long, the boss of Louisiana politics, known as?

the Kingfish

The Dust Bowl was an area of

western Kansas and Oklahoma

Most people who lived in the Dust Bowl moved where?

California

Humorist who was a star of stage and screen in the early 1930s.

Will Rogers

Membership in conservative churches did what during the 1930s?

dramatically increased

What were two popular forms of entertainment in the 1930s?

movies in the theater and radio

President Roosevelt did what in regard to the U.S.S.R. in 1933?

gave official recognition to the Communist government

The Roosevelt Administration pursued a policy of being a partner and good neighbor with what countries?

the countries of Latin America

What act created the status of most favored nation for countries conducting trade with the U.S.?

The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to what with Germany?

He allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland, hoping to end Hitler’s desire for more conquests.

When did dictators Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin come to power?

After the Great War

What date did World War II start, marked by Germany’s invasion of Poland?

September 1, 1939