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By the time the stock market crash had reached the bottom in 1932, stocks had - Answer lost almost 90 percent of their original value
All of the following were reasons for the depth and length of the Great Depression, except - Answer High taxes on Americans
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff - Answer Raised tariffs on foreign imports and proved disastrous as nations could not repay World War I debts and retaliated with high tariffs on U.S. imports to their countries
Hoover's only significant attempt to address the economic crisis was to - Answer establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that loaned money to businesses.
The improvised towns the homeless put together during the Depression were also often called - Answer Hoovervilles
As the "last hired, first fired," how did African Americans try to survive the Great Depression - Answer They relied on a network of community organizations and businesses to provide meals and other assistance
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about rural Americans during the Great Depression - Answer The Great depression simply exacerbated a decade long problem of overproduction and lowered revenues
The disruptive effects of the Dust Bowl on residents included - Answer 10 years drought, deep debt, crop failures, poor migrants to California
Hollywood of the 1930s - Answer gently poked fun at the cities while soothing audiences
with the notion that the American "rags-to-riches" dream was alive and well
Which of the following put millions of men to work building roads and creating national parks - Answer Public Works Administration
What was the purpose of the 21st Amendment, enacted in December 1933 - Answer to repeal the Prohibition Amendment
Which of the following New Deal agencies created codes of fair competition and encouraged companies and workers to set minimum prices and wages - all under the symbol of a blue eagle and the motto "We do our part"? - Answer National Recovery Administration
Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, farmers - Answer got cash incentives to plant fewer crops
The Tennessee Valley Authority had as its main goal - Answer creating electrical power for rural residents and improving river navigation.
The Glass-Steagall Act created the - Answer Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Which of these is not a true statement about the Communist Party in the 1930s - Answer It organized the Bonus March in Washington
The event that made Hoover appear uncaring, thus perhaps costing him votes in the presidential election of 1932, a contest he was in any case most likely to lose, was - Answer his orders to forcefully remove impoverished WWI veterans who protested in Washington for early payment of bonuses
During the winter of 1932-1933 the depression - Answer worsened, with neither the lame duck president nor the president elect able to act constructively
The photos assigned to Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and others captured - Answer America's economic disparity and the plight of the Depression-stricken
The Second New Deal focused on - Answer helping the working and middle classes with jobs programs and new systems for addressing workers' grievances
All of the following are true statements about Roosevelt's attempts to "pack the court" except - Answer Roosevelt's enemies in Congress were quick to vote on the court plan in the hopes of discrediting the president.
Which of the following aggressive acts of political defiance did Hitler commit in Europe in 1936 - Answer Hitler occupied the Rhineland
Historians consider the Great Depression to probably have been the most prominent cause of World War II because - Answer It led American businesses to reduce investments in Germany, which decreased that nation's productions and its ability to repay its World War I reparations
Japan's first significant move in the Pacific was when its military invaded - Answer Manchuria in China
In the Munich Agreement (1938), the leaders of Britain and France - Answer allowed Hitler to occupy strategic areas of Czechoslovakia, hoping he would stop there.
Hitler's and Stalin's nonaggression pact involved which of these countries? - Answer Poland
When Franklin Roosevelt came into the presidency, he set out to mend relations with the countries of Latin America by using - Answer the "good neighbor" policy
Roughly 90 percent of all Americans favored isolationism despite the situation in Europe for all of the following reasons except - Answer Americans did not want to bear the cost of war, which they feared would only deepen the depression
From the spring of 1940 through to the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt and the U.S. government - Answer arranged for the manufacture, transferral, and transportation of war materials and U.S. defense bases to help Great Britain and to prepare for probable war against Nazi Germany
Which of the following is not true about the Holocaust? - Answer The mass killing of European Jews remained confined to concentration camps.
Which event set the stage of American involvement in the war? - Answer The bombing of London in the Battle of Britain
Women contributed to the U.S. World War II effort by Answer Working in war plants, joining the military, growing Victory Gardens, playing in baseball leagues - All of the above
In May 1940, Winston Churchill - Answer Became Britain's Prime Minister and wrote to FDR
The "Double V" campaign refers to - Answer the African American effort to win the war overseas while ending discrimination at home.
In 1940, America's first - Answer peacetime draft
Which of the following was not one of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms? - Answer Freedom of Assembly
The Lend Lease Act, passed primarily for the benefit of Great Britain, gave the president the authority to - Answer lend weapons and supplies to all nations fighting either the Germans or the Japanese.
The Japanese decided to bomb America's naval fleet at Pearl Harbor because-Answer
as well as to try to prevent strikes? - Answer National War Labor Board
Executive Order 8802 was the establishment of - Answer antidiscrimination hiring policies for industries holding government defense contracts
War Relocation Authority was in charge of-Answer overseeing the involuntary internment of Japanese-Americans, including American-born citizens, inside various California and American Southwest camps.
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 better known as the GI Bill provided - Answer All of these choices - some unemployment benefits for veterans. Low-interest housing loans. Medical care for veterans. Financial aid for education.
Which of the following did not occur at Potsdam? - Answer Poland was given an outlet to the sea and had its prewar territorial integrity and political independence fully restored and protected.
