AMH FINAL EXAM WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
Wagner Act (1935) - ✔✔protected the rights of most workers to
organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take
part in strikes. Created after the NIRA was found unconstitutional.
Social Security Act (1935) - ✔✔Provided for handicapped, unemployed,
elderly---with extended families and religious organizations less
financially able to do so.
Alf Landon - ✔✔Kansas governor who ran as republican against FDR.
Got 71% support from papers, but ended up losing.
Literary Digest - ✔✔well-established magazine (1936) that wrongly
predicted a big victory for Republican Alf Landon. President Franklin
,Roosevelt won. The magazine became a laughingstock and soon went
out of business.
"Court Packing" Plan - ✔✔Because the Supreme Court was striking
down New Deal legislation, Roosevelt decided to curb the power of the
Court by proposing a bill to allow the president to name a new federal
judge for each who did not retire by age 70 and 1/2. At the time, 6
justices were over the age limit. Would have increased the number of
justices from 9 to 15, giving FDR a majority of his own appointees on
the court. The court-packing bill was not passed by Congress.
Pearl Harbor - ✔✔United States military base on Hawaii that was
bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl
Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
19 US ships sunk/damaged, 170 planes destroyed, 2400 men killed.
, Isoroku Yamamoto - ✔✔Japanese admiral who planned the attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1941. He said, I can do whatever I want in 6 months,
after that I can promise nothing.
Battle of the Coral Sea - ✔✔A battle between Japanese and American
naval forces that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. May 7-8
1942
The Rhineland - ✔✔name of the territory in which Hitler sent troops
into in defiance of the Versailles treaty in 1935. Rhine river was the
natural border between Germany and France.
Austrian "Anschluss" - ✔✔The forceful union of Austria into Germany,
13 March 1938
Sudentenland/Czechoslovakia - ✔✔portion of Czechoslovakia
populated with German speaking people; annexed by Hitler in build up
to WWII, allowed by French and Britain
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
Wagner Act (1935) - ✔✔protected the rights of most workers to
organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take
part in strikes. Created after the NIRA was found unconstitutional.
Social Security Act (1935) - ✔✔Provided for handicapped, unemployed,
elderly---with extended families and religious organizations less
financially able to do so.
Alf Landon - ✔✔Kansas governor who ran as republican against FDR.
Got 71% support from papers, but ended up losing.
Literary Digest - ✔✔well-established magazine (1936) that wrongly
predicted a big victory for Republican Alf Landon. President Franklin
,Roosevelt won. The magazine became a laughingstock and soon went
out of business.
"Court Packing" Plan - ✔✔Because the Supreme Court was striking
down New Deal legislation, Roosevelt decided to curb the power of the
Court by proposing a bill to allow the president to name a new federal
judge for each who did not retire by age 70 and 1/2. At the time, 6
justices were over the age limit. Would have increased the number of
justices from 9 to 15, giving FDR a majority of his own appointees on
the court. The court-packing bill was not passed by Congress.
Pearl Harbor - ✔✔United States military base on Hawaii that was
bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl
Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
19 US ships sunk/damaged, 170 planes destroyed, 2400 men killed.
, Isoroku Yamamoto - ✔✔Japanese admiral who planned the attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1941. He said, I can do whatever I want in 6 months,
after that I can promise nothing.
Battle of the Coral Sea - ✔✔A battle between Japanese and American
naval forces that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. May 7-8
1942
The Rhineland - ✔✔name of the territory in which Hitler sent troops
into in defiance of the Versailles treaty in 1935. Rhine river was the
natural border between Germany and France.
Austrian "Anschluss" - ✔✔The forceful union of Austria into Germany,
13 March 1938
Sudentenland/Czechoslovakia - ✔✔portion of Czechoslovakia
populated with German speaking people; annexed by Hitler in build up
to WWII, allowed by French and Britain
