WWII Home Front

WWII Home Front

Multiple Choice

Which of these activities helped to fund the war while controlling inflation?

• buying war bonds

• collecting scrap metal

• planting victory gardens

Multiple Choice

What is the main message of this propaganda poster?

• civilians should quit their jobs to enlist in the military

• planting victory gardens would help support the war effort

• soldiers would have jobs waiting for them when the war ended

Multiple Choice

As a result of FDR's Executive Order 9066

• women were allowed to work in war industries

• Japanese-Americans were relocated to prison camps

• food and gasoline had to be rationed

Multiple Choice

As can be seen in the chart the number of women workers in the auto industry dropped sharply after the war. This was probably due to

• declining consumer demand for automobiles

• the need to provide jobs for returning soldiers

• the higher wages demanded by female factory workers

Multiple Choice

The wearing of zoot suits was seen as "unpatriotic" because

• they used too much scarce fabric

• they were inspired by Japanese fashions

• they were worn as a form of protest against the war

Multiple Choice

According to this passage, during World War II African-Americans and Mexican-Americans both

• were relocated to concentration camps

• served in segregated units

• faced racial hostility