Democrat, Accused of stacking the court, New York, New Deal, 4 Terms, accused of being a socialist
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
100
Black Tuesday, October 29, _________
What is 1929
100
Built dams, provided jobs, provided cheap electricity to poorer states in the South
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
100
This country's absence in the League of Nations completely wiped out any credibility it may have.
What is the United States
100
Name of the mission on D-Day
What is Operation Overlord
200
Republican, Iowa, 1928, Believed that government assistance would lead to government dependence
Who is Herbert Hoover
200
The unemployment rate at the height of the depression for the nation was
What is 25%
200
Objective of this agency was to provide employment on useful projects like buildings, bridges, hard surfaced roads, cricket control, and monkey pen building. 11 Million Dollars
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)
200
Attack on this base led to the immediate declaration of war by the United States
What is Pearl Harbor
200
This General led the D-Day attacks at Normandy
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
300
Republican, decent guy who surrounded himself with terrible people, presidency plagued by scandal like the Teapot Dome incident
Who is Warren G. Harding
300
Produced by an extreme drought along with overworking the land, this natural disaster took place in the Great Plains during the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl
300
The 3 R's of Roosevelt's New Deal
What is Relief, Recovery and Reform
300
This legislation in 1935, 36, and 37 essentially barred the United States from intervening or even giving supplies to any country involved in a war.
What are the Neutrality Acts
300
This battle in the Pacific, about 1,000 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, was a major turning point in the war in the Pacific as the United States was able to turn back the movement of the Japanese by a series of "crafty" maneuvers by carriers around the island
What is the battle of Midway
400
Republican president, 1924, honest, conservative, presidency highlighted by the constant cycle of war reparations and loans being paid from Germany to the Allies to the U.S. and then back again.
Who is Calvin Coolidge
400
This group of people felt the effects of the Depression before any other in America
What are farmers
400
This agency was to establish parity prices through artificial scarcity; in essence, paying farmers not to farm as much
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
400
Franklin Roosevelt finally recognized this country as legitimate in 1933 after 16 years in power.
What is the Soviet Union
400
The last German offensive on the Western Front was at this battle
What is the Battle of the Bulge
500
Secretary of State for Roosevelt, from Tennessee, introduced the Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Who is Cordell Hull
500
At the core, the most basic explanation of what caused the Great Depression was
What is overproduction
500
This Act provided for the FDIC to insure individual deposits in banks of up to 5,000 dollars
What is the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
500
This act provided for the independence of the Philippines after a 12 year period of economic and political tutelage.
What is the Tydings-McDuffie Act
500
This military leader conducted the official surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay after two Atom Bombs were dropped on the Japanese.