US History - Unit 4 - WW2 - Homefront

Where were most of the Internment Camps

• South

• North

• East Coast

• West Coast

By the summer of 1942 nearly all major industries and nearly 200,000 companies had converted to war production. This best illustrates the term

• discrimination
• Rationing
• Mobilization
• Propaganda

The US Military remained segregated and African-Americans were initially assigned to non-combat positions. This is an example of

• Rationing
• Propaganda
• Discrimination
• Mobilization

 This WWII cartoon was used to encourage Americans to...

• Discriminate
• Ration
• Drive more 
• carpool less

___________________________ helped to provide soldiers with food because Americans could rely on themselves

• Victory Gardens
• Victory Drives
• Scrap Metal Drives
• War bonds

This poster was an icon for

• women factory workers during WWII
• housewives
• transgender soldiers
• suffragettes 

During times of war what is the "home front"?

• The site of military action and where major battles are conducted.

• Location where troops are loaded on to carrier ships along with supplies.

• The civilian population and their activities. Any aspect of wartime life.

• "Safe zone" from enemy attack. Usually reserved for elderly, women, and children to escape conflict.

The Lend Lease Act allowed

• Axis powers to transfer troops  
• The Maginot Line to be built
• Hitler to invade Poland
• America to loan military supplies to allied countries

When a country chose to remain neutral and out of the affairs of other countries

• Isolationism
• Propaganda
• Appeasement
• Rationing

The Neutrality Act of 1935 said we could not...

• sell weapons to countries at war
• sell food to countries at war
• sell any supplies to countries at war
• we condemn Hitler's moustache