Modern US History Final Exam Review

Which of the following was NOT one of the goals of the New Deal?

• economic recovery
• relief for the needy
• social recovery
• financial reform

Which of the following New Deal programs provided loans to Americans for mortgages and home repairs?

• Securities and Exchange Commission 
• Federal Housing Administration
• Works Progress Administration
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

What federal program or agency was created to regulate the stock market and prevent 'insider trading'?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Works Progress Administration
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Stock Market Comission

What individual believed that charitable organizations should be called upon to help ease the suffering of Americans during the Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover
• Calvin Coolidge
• FDR
• Warren G. Harding

Why were Britain and France drawn into war with Germany?

• because Germany attacked Czechoslovakia
• When Hitler took power in Germany
• When Germany attacked Poland
• When Germany left the League of Nations

What happened during the Battle of Britain?

• Germany engaged in a three-front war
• Germany bombed Britain for two months
• Germany entered into a non-aggression pact with Britain
• Germany joined the Axis Powers

T/F
The GI Bill of Rights assists US veterans in getting low cost home loans as well as college tuition assistance.

• True
• False

T/F
Pres. FDR agreed with isolationists about not getting involved in WWII and not assisting the Allies.

• True
• False

Hitler and his troops marched into this country unopposed because most of its' citizens were in favor of unification with Germany.

• Hungary
• Austria
• Poland
• Belgium

Pres. FDR removed people of ____ ancestry from American cities and placed them in internment camps during WWII.

• German
• Italian
• Russian
• Japanese