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APUSH Period 7 Part 2 (1929-1945)

Quiz by Kristina Sauer

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  • Q1
    What percentage of the US labor force was unemployed by 1933?
    25%
    10%
    50%
    5%
    30s
  • Q2
    Which of the following countries was the first to fall into a depression at the end of the 1920s?
    The Soviet Union
    Norway
    Sweden
    Germany
    30s
  • Q3
    Which of the following was something Hoover asked Americans to do in response to the economic downturn in 1929?
    Fear nothing but fear itself
    Tighten their belts and work hard
    Live a moral and righteous life
    Ask not what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country
    30s
  • Q4
    In the Bonus Army incident in Washington, DC in 1932, federal troops
    forcefully evicted the assembled veterans and burned their encampment
    joined in sympathy with the gathered WWI veterans
    beat the veterans who rioted and tried to march on the White House property
    arrested the demonstrators who burned their bonus checks to protest Hoover's inaction
    30s
  • Q5
    What did the 12th Amendment do?
    allowed for direct election of senators
    set presidential inaugurations for January 20
    created Social Security
    ended Prohibition
    30s
  • Q6
    Who were Harold Ickes and Bernard Baruch?
    New Deal congressional representatives who worked diligently with FDR
    Two of FDR's chief 'brain trust' advisors
    photographers who chronicled the faces of Depression
    union activists who lobbied Congress for reform
    30s
  • Q7
    What did the CCC do?
    Displaced as many as 200,000 black tenant farmers from their land
    Enlisted equal numbers of young men and women for its projects
    Hired 250,000 young men to perform reforestation and conservation work
    Provided labor for the TVA projects
    30s
  • Q8
    On what basis did the US Supreme Court strike down the NIRA in the Schechter v US decision?
    It used taxpayer money to benefit one interest group over others
    The NIRA illegally regulated commerce within individual states
    The program acted as a trust administered and funded by the federal gov't
    It violated the age-old moral and legal codes set for business
    30s
  • Q9
    FDR's Democratic Coalition included
    black northerners and white southerners
    the National Association of Manufacturers and American communists
    business and organized labor
    black and white voters in the South
    30s
  • Q10
    Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany?
    WWI reparation payments
    A leadership vacuum
    A collective security system
    US support for Hitler
    30s
  • Q11
    In 1934, the Nye Committee's reports concluded that
    the New Deal had led to the recession of 1937
    new immigrants were undermining American society
    'merchants of death' were leading the nation into WWII
    war profiteers had maneuvered the nation into WWI for financial gain
    30s
  • Q12
    Which of these statements describes the America First Committee?
    It believed the US should be interventionist
    Its intent was to keep the nation out of war
    It had very few influential followers
    The group advocated an American attack on Japan in 1940
    30s
  • Q13
    Which of the following describes the federal income tax during WWII?
    The war required that wealthy citizens pay the tax for the very first time
    FDR cut tax rates in half for the duration of the war
    FDR suspended it and implemented a national sales tax in its place
    The number of Americans paying federal income tax increased tenfold
    30s
  • Q14
    How did FDR respond to A. Philip Randolph's plan for a March on Washington?
    empowered CORE
    issued Executive Order 8802
    passed the Smith-Connally Labor Act
    implemented the GI Bill of Rights
    30s
  • Q15
    From 1941 to 1943, Stalin was most interested in securing a guarantee that Britain and the US would
    permit the USSR to establish satellite states in Eastern Europe after the war
    allow the USSR's annexation of much of northeast China after the war
    open a second front in France to force Germany to withdraw troops from Russia
    send reinforcements to fight against the Nazis on the Eastern Front
    30s

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