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Upon election FDR selected a _________ of advisors from colleges and universities.

The Brain Trust Included:
_____ Postmaster General/ political advisor

The Brain Trust Included:
______ Secretary of Labor and the first_____ on the Cabinet

The Brain Trust Included:
______ Secretary of Agriculture

The Brain Trust Included:
________ Secretary of Treasury

The Brain Trust Included:________ Secretary of State

The Brain Trust Included:________ advisor on women's issues

The ______ was passed which changed the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to ______.

The _____ repealed Prohibition

FDR's first action as president was to declare a ____ _____.

FDR's first 3 months in office were called the ____ ____ when several new pieces of major legislation were passed.

FDR kept the American public informed via radio by a series of informal talks known as the _____ _____

(FDR) The alphabet agencies which he created included:
______ Protecting deposits in American banking institutions

(FDR) The alphabet agencies which he created included:
______ Gave Young Men jobs so that our lands could be developed and protected

(FDR) The alphabet agencies which he created included:
______Which regulated the stock market.

(FDR) The alphabet agencies which he created included:
______ 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.

(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.

(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.

(FDR)
_____ gave jobs to people in construction and the fine arts.

(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.

(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 ____ ____ ____

(FDR)
____ gave pensions to the ____, ____ insurance to the jobless, aid to the ____ and _____ children. _____,____,and the ____ supplied the Funds.

(FDR)
_____ which established a ___ wage and a _____ hours.

(FDR)
____ provided electricity to rural areas.

In the election of 1936 the Democratic candidate was ____.
The Republican candidate was _____.

Conservative critics of FDR included the ________. Its most well known member was ____.
______ was a radio priest based in the city of _____,____.

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 _________.

_______ who was a louisiana senator who proposed that the federal government guarantee every American adult the following:

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 _____.

_____ 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.

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.

____ proposed a constitutional amendment so that a national vote was necessary before the US went to war. It was narrowly defeated.

___ 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.

Those who opposed American entrance into WWII formed the ___ ___ ___. ____ was a founder while ___ was its most prominent spokesman. Their slogan was _____.

_____ was Army Air Force officer who predicted that ___ would be our greatest enemy. He demonstrated the importance of an ____ in any future war.

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.

The US established a Good Neighbor policy toward ______ at a conference held in the city of ____,___.

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 _____.

The 5 Allies of WWII included:

The 3 Axis Powers of WWII included:

In the election of 1940 the Democratic candidate was ____. His vice president was ______. The Republican candidate was ____.

The ______ was established to regulate wages and prices. ____ promoted the ware effort. _____ revolutionized the ship building industry with pre fabrication techniques.

_____ became the assistant president in charge of the war effort.

The US first saw action in _____ wehre the Allies defeated German Forces commanded by ______ or the ____. This was code named _____ .

Allied leadership made the decision to invade _____ and afterward, the mainland of ___. ____ was overthrown with Italy soon joing the Allies.

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.

On the date ____ ,____ the Allies invaded _____ which was code named ____ or _____.

Allied Forces were commanded by _______.

At the battle of ____, General ____ made the famed reply of ____ to the German demands for surrender.

Amercian Forces met at the _____ River at _____

In the 1944 Election the Democratic Candidate was _____ his VP was ____. The Republican Candidate was ____.

On the date _____, ____ the German Fuhrer, _____ committed Suicide.

On the Date ______, Germany surrendered in what became known as ____ Day

During the course of the war the Allied leadership or ______ met at such locations as ____,___, _____,___, and ____.

Members of the Allied Leadership or The Big Three Included what three people and countries?

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.

The battle of ___ was a turning point in the war in the Pacific

___ commanded the American Navy in the Pacific.

____ 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

_____ 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 ____.

At the battle of ____ Japanese suicide pilots or ____ were first used.

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.

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 _____, ______.

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 ____

The Japanese surrendered on _____, ____ which became known as _____. The formal surrender took place _____ on board the battleship____ with _____ presiding.

The United Nations was first organized in the city of ____. At _____ trials were held for those accused of war crimes.

At ______,____ in a speech given to ______ College, Winston Churchill first used the term iron curtain to refer to the barriers between eastern and Western Europe.

President Truman selected _____ to be his Secretary of State who was responsible for the _____ to rebuild war-torn Europe. The _____ was created which promised American support to countries resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures. It was first used in the countries of ______ and ____.

66._____ was created to rescue German rocket scientists during WWII. One of those rescued was _______ who was instrumental in the creation of a new space program. A new space agency called ____ was established in 1958 to develop spacecraft which could explore the universe.

67.NASA used the work of _____ who developed the liquid fuel rocket and is considered the _____ .

68._____ was the first satellite in space (1957) which was followed soon after by ____, the first American satellite in space. The National Defense Education Act was quickly passed which placed emphasis on the academic subjects of ___ and ____.

69.After WWII had ended _____ Germany was controlled by the Soviets while ____ Germany was controlled by Britain, France and the United States.

70.When the Soviets blockaded Berlin in 1948 in an attempt to take the city the U.S. came to its aid with an airlift called _____. This led to the creation of an international security alliance called____.

71.Nato was headed by ____. The Soviet response was the _____, an Eastern European security alliance.

72.In 1948 _____ was the Democratic candidate for President while _____ was the Republican candidate for President.

73.____ was the States' Right or _____ candidate while _____ was the Progressive candidate in the 1948 election.

74.In the election of 1948 the incumbent President called Congress _____ for its unwillingness to cooperate with his proposals. The President appealed to the American people by traveling by train on a _____ campaign

75.Truman called his plans for the country the ______.

77.Truman ______ armed forces.

78.During Trumans second term _____, a Congressional committee, began to investigate subversive activity in what came to be known as a ____

79._____ was a California senator who rose to national prominence through his membership on this committee.

80.A confessed Soviet spy by the name of ____ accused a former State Department offical, ______ of Communist Activity.

81.____ was a Wisconsin Senator who made his career when he announced in a speech at ___ that he had the names of 205 suspected Communist sympathizers who were employed by the State Department. Attempts to smear the reputation of supsected radicals, using any tactis possible was called__

82.____ and ____ were exucuted in 1953 for their role in an atomic spy ring.

83.In 1949 _______ fell to Communist forces led by ________.

84.Nationlist forces led by _____ fled to the nearby island of ____.

85.The Korean War began with an invasion by _____ in the year_____. President _____ called for a UN police force to push the invading force north across the dividing line between North and South Korea.

86.The war did not end until ____. ______ commanded the U.N. forces in the war.

87.Douglas Mac Arthur landed at _____ but when he approached the _____, the dividing line between North Korea and China, the Chinese sent troops in.

88._____ was fired by Truman for ______

89._______ said that this war was ___________________________.

90.The Peace Treaty was signed at ________. Korea remains divided at the _______.

91.In 1952 and 1956 the Republican Candidate for the Presidency was _______ and his vice presidential running mate was ______. The Democratic Candidate was _______ (nickname was _____) and his vice presidential running mate was _____ who had become famous for investigating organized crime.

(Eisenhower)
_____ became the Secretary of State who wanted Japan to become the foundation of American Foreign policy in Asia to stop the spread of communism. He was also known for the policy of ________ or willingness to take the world to nuclear war for American defense.

(Eisenhower)
______ was a pilot of a U-2 spy plane which flew at high altitudes over the Soviet Unioin. He was shot down which became a global embarrassment to the United States when it became known that the U.S. was promoting espionage.

Gary Francis Powers

(Eisenhower)
Because of the U-2 plane shot down... A summit meeting between President ______ and the Soviet premier ______, which was to be held in the city of ____, was called off. Tensions between the 2 superpowers escalated

(Eisenhower)
_____ was a communist guerrilla leader in Vietnam who had fought the Japanese there in WWII in the belief that France would grant this colony its independence after the war ended. At ______ French forces were defeated in Vietnam in 1954.

(Eisenhower)
At an international meeting in ______, _____, Vietnam was divided at the _____. Election were to be held in 2 years to unify the country which the ___ opposed in the fear of a communist victory.

(Eisenhower)
_____ became the first president of South Vietnam to be given support by the US. he was a ______

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