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1
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What does FERA stand for?

A

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

2
Q

What is the first N of NANSPETCHEF and what 2 organisations did it set up?

A

NIRA and PWA and CWA

3
Q

Give 2 aims of the New Deal

A

Get USA back to work, protect savings, provide for sick, old and unemployed, make industry and agriculture productive again

4
Q

Name 3 high profile opponents of the New Deal

A

Huey Long, Dr Francis Townsend and Father Coughlin

5
Q

Name 2 things the Social Security Acts did in the Second New Deal

A

Financial help to sick and disabled, pensions for elderly and widows, unemployment insurance schemes

6
Q

What did the NRA set up to improve factories and how many factories signed up?

A

Blue Eagle Badge Scheme and 2 million

7
Q

How many black Americans were employed by the CCC?

A

200,000

8
Q

What was the EBA and what did it do?

A

Emergency Banking Act opened 5000 trustworthy banks

9
Q

What nickname was given to useless jobs

A

Boondoggling

10
Q

How much money did the PWA spend?

A

$3 billion

11
Q

How many women were employed by the CCC?

A

8000

12
Q

How many jobs did the WPA create in how many years?

A

8 million in 8 years

13
Q

Why was the AAA contradictory?

A

Shared better farming methods but also set quotas

14
Q

Which organisation did the NRA try to close and in which year?

A

Schechter Poultry Corporation, 1935

15
Q

Name 3 things the PWA built

A

Schools, dams, bridges, airports

16
Q

Who was FDR’s Secretary for Labour

A

Frances Perkins

17
Q

How did the TVA help farmers?

A

By irrigating land

18
Q

In which month and year was FDR elected?

A

November, 1932

19
Q

What was the name of the big trade union set up in 1935?

A

Committee for Industrial Organsation (CIO)

20
Q

How much did FERA give to states and name 3 things they bought?

A

$500 million and soup kitchens, blankets, employment schemes and nursery schools

21
Q

The WPA set up an organisation to take photos of farm land. What was it called?

A

Farm Security Administration Photographic Project

22
Q

Which part of the Second New Deal forced employers to allow unions?

A

National Labour Relations Act or Wagner Act

23
Q

How many corrupt officials did Francis Perkins remove?

A

59

24
Q

Which organisation replaced the AAA in the Second New Deal?

A

Soil Conservation Act

25
Q

What did the share the wealth scheme want to cap personal fortunes at and annual income?

A

$3 million and $1 million

26
Q

How many strikes were there in 1937 and what % were settled in favour of workers?

A

4700 strikes of which 80% were in favour of workers

27
Q

How many people were hired by the CCC?

A

2.5 million

28
Q

In which month and year did FDR become President?

A

March, 1933

29
Q

How many people were still unemployed by 1941?

A

6 million

30
Q

Which Second New Deal agency supplied electricity to areas not previously supplied?

A

Rural Electrification Administration

31
Q

What was the EA and what did it do?

A

Economy Act and cut government employee’s wages by 15%

32
Q

What name is given to the period of time between the Presidential election and becoming President?

A

Lame-duck period

33
Q

What was the name of FDR’s wife?

A

Eleanor Roosevelt

34
Q

What was the main role of the CCC?

A

To create National Parks and accessibility to them

35
Q

What was FDR accused of being like after threatening the Supreme Court judges?

A

A dictator or a fascist

36
Q

Name 2 things the NRA did to improve factory conditions

A

Improved working conditions, outlawed child labour, fixed wages, fixed sensible production levels

37
Q

Name the two laws of 1934 designed to help Native Americans

A

Native Reorganisation Act and Indian Reservation Act

38
Q

What did FDR do for the USA every Sunday and how many people listened?

A

Fireside chats and 60 million

39
Q

How many Supreme Court judges did FDR threaten to sack?

A

6

40
Q

Name a dam built by the TVA

A

Fontana, Wilson

41
Q

Name 2 Republican policies the New Deal was against

A

Laissez faire and rugged individualism

42
Q

Which union member was beaten up by Ford’s security force?

A

Frankensteen

43
Q

What did Republicans claim had crippled FDR?

A

An STD

44
Q

What happened to Huey Long and in which year?

A

Assassinated in 1935

45
Q

Name one of FDR’s advisors who helped stop corruption

A

Harold Hopkins or Harold Ickes

46
Q

Name two famous films from the 1930s

A

Gone with the wind and the Wizard of Oz

47
Q

Which film showed the fate of Okies who had been evicted from their homes during the Depression?

A

The Grapes of Wrath

48
Q

How many homes had radios by 1939?

A

28 million homes

49
Q

Which comics were first published in the 1930s?

A

Superman and Batman

50
Q

Which basketball team became famous by touring the world?

A

Harlem Globetrotters

51
Q

How much did the US government spend per day on the war by 1945?

A

$250 million per day!

52
Q

How many machine guns and warships did the USA produce during WW2?

A

2.6 million machine guns and 86,000 warships

53
Q

How many workers were there in factories during WW2?

A

14 million

54
Q

Which policy gave war resource to Britain and the USSR during WW2?

A

The Lend Lease

55
Q

What did the USSR receive during the Lend Lease?

A

7000 tanks, 18,700 aircraft and 400,000 jeeps

56
Q

How many black Americans gained jobs during WW2?

A

2 million

57
Q

How many women joined the workforce during WW2?

A

7 million

58
Q

How many Japanese-Americans were sent to relocation centres during WW2?

A

100,000

59
Q

What did FDR introduce in 1941 to help black American workers?

A

The Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)

60
Q

What does CORE stand for?

A

Congress of Racial Equality

61
Q

What did CORE do in 1947?

A

16 CORE activists travelled from northern to southern states in the Journey of Conciliation

62
Q

What did the Journey of Conciliation show?

A

Southern states were still discriminating against black Americans on interstate buses