WWII at Home

Why were posters like this produced during World War II? 

• A. to encourage women to join community defense organizations in case of invasion 
• B. to encourage women to work in defense industries in order to support the war effort 
• C. to encourage women to serve in government and replace men drafted into the military 
• D. to encourage women to join the military and support their country by fighting overseas

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

• mobilization

• rationing

• discrimination

• propaganda

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

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

What are War Bonds?

• A certificate that you buy for less in order to give the government money right away, then in a few years your make more money turning it in
• 007 secret agents that infiltrated Nazi Germany
• Rationing supplies in order to support the War effort
• The Atomic Bomb

In the United States during WWII, the role of women changed as they

• were drafted and assigned military roles equal to those held by men

• continued to work outside the home only in jobs traditionally performed by women

• made major contributions to the war effort by taking jobs in factories

• achieved positions of leadership in most major industries

In the United States, one result of WWII was that

• Americans became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world

• minorities were granted full civil rights

• industrial wages decreased

• the number of women in the workforce increased

What political term does the political cartoon above describe?

• Assimilation 
• Appeasement 
• Blitzkrieg
• Blitzkrieg

Operation Overload is most commonly known as what?

• The Ambush 
• The Battle of the Bulge
• The Landing in Europe 
  
• D-Day 

What event led the United States to become invovled in World War 2 ?

• The Discovery of Auschwitz
• The Battle of Britain
• The Sinking of the Lusitania
• The Attack on Pearl Harbor
  

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Britain and France declared war in response to what event?

• German invasion of Poland
• Soviet invasion of Finland
• German invasion of Czechoslovakia
  
• Italian Invasion of Ethiopia