World War 2 At Home Quiz

During World War II, guarded camps way from the Pacific Coast, where Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans were forced to move

• Internment Camp

• rationing

• fascism

• Concentration Camp

The system of limiting the amount people can buy of scarce goods

• isolationism

• rationing

• war bonds

• shortage

Investment paid by American citizens to the government to help pay for a war that, after the war, will be paid back with interest.

• isolationism

• war bonds

• rationing

• taxes

Which of the following are ways that Americans of all ages helped the war effort from home? Choose all that apply.

• They held scrap drives and planted victory gardens.

• They bought war bonds to help fund the war effort.

• They served overseas as nurses.

• They rationed food and gas in order to send more overseas.

Which of the following describes the contribution of African Americans to the war effort? Choose all that apply.

• They were the first balloon unit to land at D-Day.

• They fought Japanese forces in the Pacific.

• They served in segregated units.

• They refused to serve overseas.

In what ways did women serve in the military during World War 2? Choose all that apply.

• They worked as riveters, welders, factory workers, and ship builders.

• They fought in combat in both the European and the Pacific theaters

• They risked their lives serving as nurses overseas.

• They worked in factories while the men were overseas.

How were Japanese Americans treated after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

• They were executed for helping the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.

• They were interrogated to make sure they were not Japanese spies

• They were imprisoned in Internment Camps to make sure they weren’t helping Japan

• They were rewarded for spying on Japan.

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

• Women working in factories during the war

• African American soldiers fighting in Europe

• The first entirely African American fighter pilots in the U.S. military

• White soldiers that trained in Tuskegee, Alabama