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Upon election FDR selected a _________ of advisors from colleges and universities.
Brain Trust
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The Brain Trust Included:
_____ Postmaster General/ political advisor
James Farley
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The Brain Trust Included:
______ Secretary of Labor and the first_____ on the Cabinet
Francis Perkins
Woman
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The Brain Trust Included:
______ Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
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The Brain Trust Included:
________ Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
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The Brain Trust Included:________ Secretary of State
Cordell Hull
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The Brain Trust Included:________ advisor on women's issues
Molly Dewson
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The ______ was passed which changed the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to ______.
20th Amendment
Jan. 20th
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The _____ repealed Prohibition
21st Amendment
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FDR's first action as president was to declare a ____ _____.
Bank Holiday
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FDR's first 3 months in office were called the ____ ____ when several new pieces of major legislation were passed.
100 Days
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FDR kept the American public informed via radio by a series of informal talks known as the _____ _____
Fireside Chats
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(FDR) The alphabet agencies which he created included:
______ Protecting deposits in American banking institutions
______ Gave Young Men jobs so that our lands could be developed and protected
______Which regulated the stock market.
______ which paid farmers to reduce their acreage planted and livestock raised. It was declared unconstitutional in the case of _________ because processors were taxed to pay for the subsidies.
FDIC
CCC
SEC
AAA
Butter Vs. United States
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(FDR)
______ which regulated American Businesses through a series of regulations. The director was _____. The slogan was ______ and the symbol was the _____. It was declared ______ due to its regulation of intrastate commerce.
NRA
Hugh Jonson
We Do Our Part
Blue Eagle
Unconstitutional
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(FDR)
_____ controlled flooding along the ____ River and provided cheap electricity along with recreational facilities. Its director was ______. It was controversial due to the competition with private power companies.
TVA
Tennessee
David Lilenthal
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(FDR)
_____ gave jobs to people in construction and the fine arts.
WPA
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(FDR)
___ gave part time jobs to young people in high school and college to keep them in school. _____ headed the Negro Division, the first African-American to head a government agency.
NYA
Mary Vethune
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(FDR)
_____ guaranteed labor's right to organize, ____,and a ban on _____. It also had a nickname after the sponsor of the bill, _____. It was also called the ____ ____ ____
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Collecting Bargaining
Child Labor
Robert Wagner
Labors Magna Carta
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(FDR)
____ gave pensions to the ____, ____ insurance to the jobless, aid to the ____ and _____ children. _____,____,and the ____ supplied the Funds.
Social Security Act
Elderly
unemployment
handicap and Dependent
Employers, Employees, and Federal Government
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(FDR)
_____ which established a ___ wage and a _____ hours.
Fair Labor Standards Act
Minimum
Maximum
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(FDR)
____ provided electricity to rural areas.
REA
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In the election of 1936 the Democratic candidate was ____.
The Republican candidate was _____.
FDR
Alfred Landon
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Conservative critics of FDR included the ________. Its most well known member was ____.
______ was a radio priest based in the city of _____,____.
American Liberty League
Al Smith
Charles Coughlin
Royal Oak, Michigan
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Liberal critics of FDR included:
_______ who wanted the federal government to provide for the elderly by giving them 200 dollars per month if they would ___ and _________.
Francis Townsend
Retire
spend the money that month
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_______ who was a louisiana senator who proposed that the federal government guarantee every American adult the following:
Huey Long
- 1. House
- 2. Car
- 3. Free Education
- 4. Pension (retirment)
- 5. Min. Income of $2,000 a year
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Huey Long's Proposal would be paid for by taxing those individuals with annual incomes of ____ by taxing 100% all income over that level. Anyone who had accumulated ____ must turn over the excess to the government. He promised to make _____. His slogan was ____. His Nickname was ___. He was _____.
1 Million
5 million
every man a king
share the wealth
King Fish
assasinated
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_____ proposed that the elderly over the age of ___ be paid a pension of ___ dollars a month and that workshops for the unemployed be created by the government.
Upton Sinclair
60
50 dollars
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In the 1930's the United States followed an ___ foreign policy. the ____ was a Senate investigation into our entrance into WWI. It had an ____ slant as it blamed the war on manufacturers, bankers , and others in the business world.
Isolationist
NYE
Anti-Jewish
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____ proposed a constitutional amendment so that a national vote was necessary before the US went to war. It was narrowly defeated.
Louis Ludlow
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___ directed a radio version of the ______ classic novel, War of the Worlds. It was announced that Martians had invaded ____, ____. The panic that followed was a reflection of American fears of events in Germany.
Orson Wells
H.G. Welles
Princeton, New Jersey
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Those who opposed American entrance into WWII formed the ___ ___ ___. ____ was a founder while ___ was its most prominent spokesman. Their slogan was _____.
America First Committee
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Fortress America
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_____ was Army Air Force officer who predicted that ___ would be our greatest enemy. He demonstrated the importance of an ____ in any future war.
William Mitchell
Japan
Air Force
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WWII began on the date _______ with a German invasion of _____. The Japanese invasion of French Indochina: ____,____, and ____. Led the US to stop all sales of aviation fuel and scrap metal as well as freezing all Japanese assets in the US.
Sept. 1, 1939
Poland
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
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The US established a Good Neighbor policy toward ______ at a conference held in the city of ____,___.
Latin America
Montevideo, Urgay
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The US was ____ until the Japanese _______ on the date ________ which FDR called a date which will live in infamy. Only one person dissented from the vote to go to war: ____ of _____.
Neutral
Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941
Jeannette Ramkin of Montana
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The 5 Allies of WWII included:
- Great Britain
- France
- Soviet Union USSR
- China
- United States
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The 3 Axis Powers of WWII included:
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In the election of 1940 the Democratic candidate was ____. His vice president was ______. The Republican candidate was ____.
FDR
Henry Wallace
Wendel Wilkie
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The ______ was established to regulate wages and prices. ____ promoted the ware effort. _____ revolutionized the ship building industry with pre fabrication techniques.
OPA ( office of price admin.)
Elmer Davis
Henry Kaiser
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_____ became the assistant president in charge of the war effort.
James Byrnes
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The US first saw action in _____ wehre the Allies defeated German Forces commanded by ______ or the ____. This was code named _____ .
North Africa
General Erwin Rommel
Desert Fox
Operation Torch
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Allied leadership made the decision to invade _____ and afterward, the mainland of ___. ____ was overthrown with Italy soon joing the Allies.
Sicily
Italy
Mussolini
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On the eastern front, Hitler made the decision to invade an ally, the _____ which was code named _____. At ____ the Germans laid siege to the city for a period of over 2 1/2 yrs. The battle of ___ was the turning point of the war in the east in the year _____ as German forces were pushed back.
Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
Leningrad
Stalingerad
1943
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On the date ____ ,____ the Allies invaded _____ which was code named ____ or _____.
June 6th 1944
Normandy
Operation Overlord
D-Day
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Allied Forces were commanded by _______.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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At the battle of ____, General ____ made the famed reply of ____ to the German demands for surrender.
Bastogne
A.C. McAuliffe
Nuts
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Amercian Forces met at the _____ River at _____
Elbe
Torgau
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In the 1944 Election the Democratic Candidate was _____ his VP was ____. The Republican Candidate was ____.
FDR
Harry Truman
Thomas Dewey
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On the date _____, ____ the German Fuhrer, _____ committed Suicide.
April 30th 1945
Adolf Hitler
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On the Date ______, Germany surrendered in what became known as ____ Day
May 8th 1945
V.E. Day
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During the course of the war the Allied leadership or ______ met at such locations as ____,___, _____,___, and ____.
The Big Three
- Cairo
- Casablanca
- Tehran
- Yalta
- Potsdam
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Members of the Allied Leadership or The Big Three Included what three people and countries?
FDR-US
Winston Churchhill-Great Britain
Joseph Stalin- USSR (Soviet Union)
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At the battle of the ____ Americans stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. The battle of the ____ was the first battle fought entirely by aircraft carriers.
Coral Sea
Coral Sea
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The battle of ___ was a turning point in the war in the Pacific
Midway
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___ commanded the American Navy in the Pacific.
Chester Nimity
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____ refers to the American plan to take the ____ at the battle of____ with as few men and supplies as possible. _____ ___ _____ commanded American naval forces at this batttle
Operation Shoestring
Soloman Islands
Guadalcanal
Willaim Bull Halsey
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_____ commanded the American Army in the Pacific. When he was force to surrender the Phillippines to the Japanese he promised ____. Americans regained control of the Philippines at the battle of ____.
Douglas Mac Arthur
I Shall Return
Leyte Gulf
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At the battle of ____ Japanese suicide pilots or ____ were first used.
Okinawa
Kamikazes
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The final meeting of the Big Three took place at ____, a suburb of ____. Battles fought at ____ and ___ less than 350 miles from Japan conviced the American High Command of the terrible toll it would take on American forces to invade the Japanese home islands.
Potsdam
Berlin
Okiniwa and Iwajima
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The ______, directed by______, refers to the development of atomic weapons. German Refugee ______ had convinced FDR of the necessity of American creation of such sophisticated arms. One was first tested at _____, ______.
Manhatten Project
Robert Oppenheimer
Albert Einstein
Almamagordo, New Mexico
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The ____, piloted by _____, dropped the first bomb on ______. This Plane took from the island of _____ to complete what was considered to be a suicide mission. The second was dropped on ____
Enola Day piloted by Paul Tibbets
Hiroshima
Timian
Nagasaki
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The Japanese surrendered on _____, ____ which became known as _____. The formal surrender took place _____ on board the battleship____ with _____ presiding.
Sept. 2, 1945
BJ Day
Tokyo Bay
Missouri
Douglas Mac Arthur
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The United Nations was first organized in the city of ____. At _____ trials were held for those accused of war crimes.
San Francisco
Nuremberg
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