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1. What was the title of Roosevelt's first radio "fireside chat," broadcast on March 12, 1932?

    On Drought Conditions
    On the Bank Crisis
    Outlining the New Deal Program
    On the Reorganization of the Judiciary

2. How many unemployed Americans were put to work by Roosevelt's Works Projects Administration?

    3.5 million people
    8.5 million people
    11.7 million people
    14 million people

3. Under Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy, the U.S. in 1934 renounced the right to intervene in the internal affairs of what country?

    Canada
    Mexico
    Cuba
    Jamaica

4. Which of the following government-run programs was NOT created under Roosevelt?

    Securities and Exchange Commission
    National Labor Relations Board
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration

5. Which of the following was a deciding factor in FDR's decision to run for an unprecedented third term as president in 1940?

    Nazi Germany's occupation of France
    Development of the Tennessee Valley Authority
    Pending legislation to create the first peacetime draft
    Dislike of Republican presidential nominee Wendell Wilkie

6. To which of the following actions did Roosevelt compare his wartime lend-lease program to supply Great Britain?

    Lending a garden hose to put out a fire in a neighbor's house
    Lending a ladder to repair a neighbor's crumbling roof
    Lending a sack of flour to a hungry neighbor
    Lending a hammer to build a neighbor's hurricane shelter

7. True or False: During the 1941 Atlantic Conference, FDR advocated a postwar world in which only the United States and Great Britain would bear arms and maintain world peace.

    True
    False

8. "A date which will live in infamy" refers to what event during Roosevelt's presidency?

    Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939
    The creation of a German-occupied zone of France on June 22, 1940
    The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
    Surrender of U.S. forces in the Philippines to the Japanese on May 6, 1942

9. What did Roosevelt promise Stalin at the 1945 Yalta Conference in return for the Soviet Union's pledge that it would join the war against Japan?

    U.S. transfer of details on the Manhattan Project on a "need-to-know" basis
    U.S. recognition of Soviet territorial claims in the Far East
    U.S. tolerance of a Soviet military offensive against Berlin
    U.S. recognition of a communist regime in Poland

10. True or False: Under a secret agreement crafted by FDR and Churchill, the U.S. agreed to share information on the Manhattan Project with Great Britain only.

    True
    False


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