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US history AP/CC
US history AP/CC final 2011 for the Gambler
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Weak willed president whose manner opened the door to widespread corruption in his administration | Warren G. Harding |
| Tight-lipped vermonter who promoted frugality and probusiness policies during his presidency | Calvin Coolidge |
| Secretary of commerse through much of the 1920s whose reputation for economic genius became a casualty of the great depression | Herbert Hoover |
| Leader of a liberal third party insurgency who attracted little attention outside the sunbelt | Robert La Follette |
| Commander of the troops who forcefully ousted the army of unemployed veterans from washington in 1932 | Douglas MacArthur |
| Former New York social worker who became an influential FDR adviser and head of several New Deal agencies | Harry Hopkins |
| Domineering boss of the mine workers union who launched the CIO | John L. Lewis |
| Economist whose theories justified FDR's deficit spending policies | John Maynard Keynes |
| Louisiana senator and popular mass agitator who promised to make every man a king at the expense of the wealthy | Huey Long |
| Former New York governor who roused the nation to action against the depression with his appeal to the forgotten man | FDR |
| Fascist Leader of Nazi Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| Italian fascist who invaded Ethiopia and joined the axis side | Benito Mussolini |
| British prime minister who led Britain's lonely resistance to Hitler in 1940-41 | Winston Churchill |
| Soviet dictator who first helped Hitler conquer Poland, then became a victim of Nazi aggression | Joseph Stalin |
| The corruption of the harding administration involved US officials taking bribes from other governments | False |
| Farmers looked unsuccessfully to the federal government to help relieve their severe economic troubles in the 1920s | True |
| The main exception to America's isolationist policy in the 1920 was the continuing US armed intervention in Latin America | True |
| The Hawley Smoot Tariff strengthened the trend toward expanded international trade and economic cooperation | False |
| The depression was caused partly by over expansion of credit and excessive consumer debt in the 1920s | True |
| In the 1932 campaign, Roosevelt attacked Hoover's economic policies and promised to balance the federal budget | True |
| The hundred days congress rushed to pass dozens of New Deal programs and granted large emergency powers to the President | True |
| Roosevelt's Monetary reforms were designed to maintain the gold standard and protect the value of the dollar | False |
| The primary agriculture problem of the Great depression was declining farm production and soaring prices | False |
| The securities and exchange commission and the Public utilities Holding Company act both imposed new federal controls to reform certain corrupt or deceptive business practices | True |
| The conservative supreme court continued to strike down new deal legislations after Roosevelts court ppacking plan failed | False |
| American isolationism was caused partly by disillusionment with US participation in WWI | True |
| The appeasement of Hitler by the Western Democracies failed to stop his territorial demands | True |
| The fall of France to Hitler in 1940 strengthened US determination to stay neutral | false |
| The 1941 lend-lease act marked the effective abandonment of US neutrality and the beginning of naval clashes with Germany | True |
| During the 1920s |
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