Neely's World War II Quiz part 2

During the Second World War, nylon was needed for the manufacture of parachutes, resulting in a shortage of that material, like many other products, during and following the war. As a result, there was also a shortage of what product commonly marketed to females?

• Romance novels

• High heel shoes

• Stockings

• Exercise bikes

Women were encouraged to enter the work force because of the shortage of available men. Women were therefore needed in the factories in order to:

• Build atomic bombs

• Maintain the country's military and industrial production levels

• Grow membership in labor unions

• Satisfy federal quotas for female employment

Which new technology could be used during WWII to detect and track the movement of aircraft? This technology was in place at Pearl Harbor, but ignored in the minutes before the Japanese attack.

• Sonar

• Radar

• Jet engines

• Satellites

What important contribution was made by the Navajo and Cherokee soldiers during WWII?

• Designing radar

• Operating sonar equipment

• Flying escort planes during bombing raids

• Encoding military communications for secure transmission

What prompted the United States to officially enter World War II?

• The bombing of the US military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

• German U-boat attacks

• The German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939

• The Japanese development of atomic bombs

As allied forces progressed across Europe, into Germany, they encountered the atrocity of the Holocaust. This was largely carried out in 10,000:

• Japanese slave labor camps

• Nazi concentration camps

• Internment camps

During the war, the combined forces of the Army, Navy and Marines utilized a strategy of island hopping, so that they could seize those islands in the Pacific. Why?

• To gain access to vital natural resources

• To keep promises to allies

• To protect shipping routes for neutral countries

• So they could use those islands to establish military bases for use in further attacks against Japanese held territories.

Commercially grown food was largely bought by the US government during WWII to feed the 15 million military personnel. What were civilians encouraged to reduce the demand for that food by following the rationing laws and by doing what?

• Eating more meat

• Growing their own food by planting Victory Gardens

• Skipping one meal on each day ending in the letter "y"

• Buying food on the black market

In response to the growing demand for personnel to support the war effort as the war progressed, the US government encouraged women to join the army and to fill positions such as:

• Fighter pilots

• Tank drivers

• Nurses

• Snipers

Forty three years after the conclusion of WWII, the US Congress passed a law to provide reparations to a groups of Americans whose rights had been violated during the war. Five years after that law's enactment, President Clinton apologized for the wrong that had been done. What was he apologizing for?

• The internment of Japanese Americans

• The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

• The segregation of African Americans in the US navy

• The Red Scare