Unit 1

• Due to the great depression, how many Americans lived in poverty?

  40%
• How many people were unemployed in 1932 under Hoover?

  12m
• How did Hoover spend over budget in his last year?

  Budget: $2bn

  Spent: $5bn
• How many veterans in the bonus army marched to Washington?

  200,000
• How many states did Republicans win in the 1936 election?

  2
• To solve the banking crisis, how long did FDR close banks for?

  4 days
• How many fair practise codes did the NRA have?

  756
• How many letters of support did FDR receive a day?

  8000
• How many bills did Truman veto and how many times was he override?

  Vetoed: 250 bills

  Overriden: 12x
• How many federal employees were reviewed, fired and caught during Truman's 1947 FBI investigations?


  Reviewed: 3m

  Fired: 300

  Communist: 0
• How much did the US holdings of atomic bombs increase from 1947-48?

  13-50
• How many Americans died in the Korean war?

  33,000
• How much of the GNP was being used for Korean war?

  14%
• How did Korea increase defence spending?

  1950 - 13b

  1953 - 50b
• How many tickets sold at Woodstock festival 1969?

  200,000
• What was the financial and human cost of Vietnam?

  Financial: $120b

  Human: 58,000
• How did the % of Americans who trusted the gov in 1960 compare with 1974?

  1960: 70%

  1974: 40%
• 1976 lection polls, what % of Americans thought both carter and ford lacked Presidential quality?

  75%