Ch 21 - Fighting WWII

Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort

• Victory Gardens
• Pearl Harbor
• Totalitarianism
• USS Arizona

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CCSS.RL.8.9

A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb

• The Manhattan Project
• Totalitarianism
• Pearl Harbor
• USS Arizona

a symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war

• Pearl Harbor
• Rosie the Riveter
• Cornelia Fort
• Axis Powers

The need for workers temporarily broke down some racial barriers, although discrimination against ________________________________ continued.

• African Americans
• Japanese Americans
• Mexican Americans
• German Americans

True or False: Japanese Internment camps were exactly like concentration camps.

• True

• False

Which of the following items were among those rationed?

• Meat, gas, sugar
• Grapes, nuts, cereal
• Water, milk, juice
• Toys, clothes, books

True or False: Before WWII, many African Americans were denied the opportunity to serve on the front lines in war.

• True
• False

Japanese Americans were sent to __________________ camps, due to many Americans fearing they were spies.

• internment
• concentration
• death
• work

Following the attack on ___________ _________, many Americans treated Japanese Americans poorly and were fearful of them.

• Pearl Harbor
• Stalingrad
• D-Day
• Midway

FDR believed that America must be the "_____________________ of democracy"

• arsenal
• hope
• light
• beacon