2/4 Bellringer

2/4 Bellringer

Conducting WWII

WAAC

Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) resolution that was presented to Congress in 1941. With support from the General of the Army George Marshall, the bill passed both House of Representatives and then the Senate in May of 1942. With the WAAC in place, the War Department announced that it would follow Army policy, and admit black women with a 10-percent quota.

Captain Dovey Roundtree

Dovey Johnson Roundtree, who would go on to become one of the first 39 black women Officers, worked with Eleanor Roosevelt, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, and Mary McLeod Bethune to draft the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) resolution that was presented to Congress. She'd live to be 104 years young!

Multiple Choice

Poster from the Seventeenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1934.

Poster text: “Raise the Flag of Lenin, It Gives Us Victory!”

Banners at bottom read: “Long live the invincible party of Lenin!” “Long live the great guide of the international proletarian revolution, Comrade Stalin!”

Artworks of the type shown in the image were used for all of the following EXCEPT to

• mobilize the Soviet population in support of the policy of “total war” during the Second World War

• showcase Soviet support for the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War

• promote Soviet support for anti-imperialist independence movements in Asia and Africa

• encourage Soviet citizens to embrace Western popular culture