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Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German
invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin non-aggression treaty. a) A, C, B b) B, C, A c) C, B, A d) C, A, B e) A, B, C
2. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, (C) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union a) B, A, C b) A, B, C c) C, B, A d) A, C, B e) C, A, B 3. The most vigorous "champion of the dispossessed"that is, the poor and minoritiesin Roosevelt administration circles was A) Harold Ickes. B) Alfred E. Smith. C) Eleanor Roosevelt. D) Frances Perkins. E) Henry A. Wallace. 4. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by A) nationalizing all banks and major industries. B) mobilizing America's youth as in wartime. C) returning to the traditional policies of laissez-faire capitalism. D) continuing the policies already undertaken by President Hoover. E) experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform. 5. The phrase "Hundred Days" refers to A) the worst months of the Great Depression. B) the time it took for Congress to begin acting on President Roosevelt's plans for combating the Great Depression. C) the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. D) the "lame-duck" period between Franklin Roosevelt's election and his inauguration. E) the time that all banks were closed by FDR. 6. One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that A) the South had shifted to the Republican party. B) Democrats made gains in the normally Republican Midwest. C) urban Americans finally cast more votes than rural Americans. D) a clear "gender gap" opened up in which more women favored the Democrats. E) African Americans shifted from their Republican allegiance and became a vital element in the Democratic party.

7. When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933, A) Congress refused to grant him any legislative authority. B) he knew exactly what he wanted to do. C) he received unprecedented congressional support. D) he wanted to make as few mistakes as possible. E) he at first proceeded cautiously 8. The Works Progress Administration was a major _______________ program of the New Deal; the Public Works Administration was a long-range __________ program; and the Social Security Act was a major _______________ program. A) relief; recovery; reform B) reform; recovery; relief C) recovery; relief; reform D) relief; reform; recovery E) reform; relief; recovery 9. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the "farm problem" by A) reducing agricultural production. B) subsidizing American farm exports overseas. C) encouraging farmers to switch to industrial employment. D) helping farmers to pay their mortgages. E) creating farm cooperatives. 10 In 1935, President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to A) help farmers migrate from Oklahoma to California. B) place unemployed industrial workers in areas where their labor was needed. C) move Indians from land that could be farmed by victims of the Dust Bowl. D) find jobs for farmers in industry. E) help farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl move to better land. 11. Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to A) Oklahoma. B) Arizona. C) Nevada. D) Oregon. E) California. 12. The most controversial aspect of the Tennessee Valley Authority was its efforts in A) electrical power. B) flood control. C) soil conservation. D) reforestation. E) resettlement of poor farmers. 13. The Social Security Act of 1935 provided all of the following except A) unemployment insurance. B) old-age pensions. C) economic provisions for the blind and disabled. D) support for the blind and physically handicapped. E) health care for the poor.

14. President Roosevelt's "Court-packing" scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court A) more conservative. B) more independent of Congress. C) more sympathetic to New Deal programs. D) less burdened with appellate cases. E) more respectful of the Constitution's original intent. 15. During the 1930s, A) the Great Depression forced President Roosevelt to trim the size of the federal bureaucracy. B) the states regained influence over the economy. C) businesspeople eventually came to admire President Roosevelt's New Deal programs. D) the New Deal substantially closed the gap between production and consumption in the American economy. E) the national debt doubled. 16. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was most notable for A) ending the Great Depression. B) providing moderate social reform without radical revolution or reactionary fascism. C) undermining state and local governments. D) aiding big cities at the expense of farmers. E) attacking the American capitalist system. 17. The Glass-Steagall Act A) took the United States off the gold standard. B) empowered President Roosevelt to close all banks temporarily.** C) created the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the stock exchange. D) permitted commercial banks to engage in Wall Street financial dealings. E) created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits. 18. The most immediate emergency facing Franklin Roosevelt when he became president in March 1933 was A) a chaotic banking situation. B) the national debt. C) the need to silence demagogic rabble-rousers such as Huey Long. D) the collapse of international trade. E) the farm crisis 19. The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act A) raised America's tariff schedule B) inhibited President Roosevelt's efforts to implement his Good Neighborhood policy. C) increased America's foreign trade D) was most strongly opposed in the South and West E) was aimed at isolating Italy and Germany 20. President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy A) lowered tariffs to increase trade b) encouraged trade only with Latin America c) continued the policy that had persisted since the Civil War

d) was reversed only after World War II e) sought protection for key U.S. industries 21. As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt a) abandoned the Monroe Doctrine B) withdrew American marines from Haiti c) asked Congress to extend the Platt Amendment in Cuba d) returned to the Guantanamo naval base to Cuban control e) proposed to grant Rico its independence 22. Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly a) in order to win support for American Catholics b) because the Soviet leadership seemed to be modifying its harsher communist policies c) in hopes of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany d) to win favor with American liberals and leftists e) to open opportunities for American investment in Siberian oil fields 23. One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was a) the formal recognition of the Soviet Union b) joining the League of Nations c) establishing military bases in China d) his support of the Tydings-McDuffie Act e) his commitment to Philippine independence 24. Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by a) assisting their victims with military aid b) giving only economic help to the targets of aggression c) beginning to build up their military forces d) demanding an oil embargo on all warring nations e) retreating into isolationism 25. Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's vision of ______________, Hitler's invasion of _______________, and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of ____________________. a) Egypt, France, Poland b) Albania, Italy, Austria c) Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, Spain d) Belgium, the Soviet Union, France e) Ethiopia, Norway, Portugal 26. By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to a) increase the size of the Supreme Court b) limit a president to two terms c) ban arm sales to foreign nations d) require the president to gain Congressional approval before sending U.S. troops overseas e) forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum 27. From 1925 to 1940 the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequence:

a) embargo to lend-lease to cash-and-carry b) cash-and-carry to lend-lease to embargo c) lend-lease to cash-and-carry to embargo d) embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease e) lend-lease to embargo to cash-and-carry 28. Franklin Roosevelt's sensational "Quarantine Speech" resulted in a) immediate British support for U.S. policy b) a wave of protest by isolationists c) support from both Democratic and Republican leaders d) Japanese aggression in China e) A modification of the Neutrality Acts 29. In September 1938 in Munich, German, a) Britain and France consented to Germany's taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia b) Hitler declared his intention to take Austria c) Hitler signed the Axis Alliance Treaty with Japan d) Britain and France acquiesced to the German reoccupation of the Rhineland e) Britain and France declared that an invasion of Poland would mean war 30. Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, a) Britain and France singed a similar agreement b) the Soviets attacked China c) Germany invaded Poland and started World War II d) Italy signed a similar agreement with the Soviets e) the Germans invaded Finland 31. The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty was a) Poland b) Czechoslovakia c) Austria d) Belgium e) the Jews 32. Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to a) revoke all the neutrality laws b) expand naval patrols in the Atlantic c) enact a new neutrality law enabling the Allies to buy American war materials on a cash-and-carry basis d) call for the quarantining of aggressor nations e) pass a conscription law 33. America's neutrality effectively ended when a) Japan attacked Pearl Harbor b) Germany attacked Poland c) the conscription laws was passed in 1940 d) France fell to Germany e) Italy "stabbed France in the back" 34. By 1940 American public opinion began to favor a) the American First position

b) active participation in the war c) permitting U.S. volunteers to fight in Britain d) maintaining strict neutrality e) providing Britain with "all aid short of war" 35. The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was a) Wendell L. Willkie b) Robert A. Taft c) Thomas E. Dewey d) Alfred E. Landon e) Charles A. Lindbergh 36. Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his a) personal desire to defeat his old political rival, Wendell Willkie b) belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis c) mania for power d) opposition to Willkie's pledge to restore a strict policy of American neutrality e) belief that the two-term tradition limited democratic choice 37. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the U.S. a) promised aid to the Soviets but did not deliver b) refused to provide any help, either military or economic c) gave only non-military aid to Russia d) made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets e) sent U.S. ships to Soviet naval bases 38. Japan believed that it was forced into war with the U.S. because Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan a) withdraw from the Dutch East Indies b) leave China c) renew its trade with America d) break its treaty of nonaggression with Germany e) find alternative sources of oil 39. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because a) President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaya or the Philippines b) there was no way of knowing that the Japanese had been provoked to the point of starting a war with the U.S. c) Japanese communications were in a secret code unknown to the U.S. d) the U.S. was, at the time, Japan's main source of oil and steel e) it was believed that Japan had insufficient aircraft carriers to reach near Hawaii 40. On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans a) were beginning to question the increased aid given to Britain b) still wanted to keep the U.S. out of war c) accepted the idea that America would enter the war d) did not oppose Japan's conquests in East Asia e) were ready to fight Germany but not Japan

41. FDR's New Deal programs:

**did not end the depression 42. The 1932 Democratic platform called for: **repeal of prohibition (21st Amendment) 43. The National Recovery Act began to fail because: **it required too much self-sacrifice on the part of individual labor and the public 44. The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trail blazing law that: **gave labor the right to bargain collectively 45. The Federal Securities Act aimed to: **force stock promoters to give investors information regarding the soundness of their stocks

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