Test Your Knowledge
How much do you know about Franklin Roosevelt? Click your answers below, then press the submit button to view the results.
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.