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  1. 2. The _______ Act of 1935 raised tax rates on the upper classes from 59% to 75%. (Page 579)
  2. 6. In 1932, _________ was elected and there was Japanese aggression in China. (Page 578)
  3. 7. By 1940, the WPA had built half a million miles of _____, 100,000 bridges and public buildings, 18,000 miles of storm drains and sewers, 200 airfields, and many other public works. (Page 584)
  4. 9. Roosevelt’s most important action in saving the banking system occurred in April 1933, when he took the United States off the ____ _________. (Page 582)
  5. 12. Between ______1937 and May 1938, WPA relief rolls in Midwestern auto towns surged, rising 194% in Toledo and 434% in Detroit. (Page 594)
  6. 13. EXPECTANCY ____ __________ which had increased steadily for 16 years before Roosevelt, abruptly dropped by 1940. (Page 588)
  7. 14. On March 5, 1933, FDR announced a national bank ______ during which all banks would close and be examined. (Page 582)
  8. 15. In 1941, Japan bombed ______ ______ and the United States declared war on the Axis powers. (Page 578)
Down
  1. 1. A series of violent _______, many of them initiated by radical elements, resulted in a wave of looting and burning and general rioting in New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
  2. 3. In May 1934, a Senate committee headed by Clarence Darrow reported that the ___ was “ghastly, preposterous, savage, wolfish, monopolistic, and invasive.” (Page 585)
  3. 4. The minimum wage law helped maintain _____________ levels nearly twice those of 1929, preventing many Americans from accepting wages below government-approved levels. (Page 586)
  4. 5. ____ Maynard Keynes’s book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money was published in 1936. (Page 580)
  5. 8. The ____ ______ Standards Act established a minimum wage.
  6. 10. In 1933, _____ _____ was named Chancellor of Germany. (Page 578)
  7. 11. In 1939, Hitler invaded ______, starting World War II. (Page 578)