American Home Front WWII

To make sure troops had everything they need, Americans were forced to ______________

• ration: government doled out how much gas, food, clothes, etc, people could have

• give everything they had to troops
• have Meatless Mondays

The government paid for WWII using all of the following except

• war bonds
• increase in debt

• increase in tax base (people who pay taxes)
• using social security

This U.S. war poster came from the Office of War Information. What is it trying to get people to do?

• Buy cheaper tires

• change their behaviour voluntarily

• give Hitler a ride when he is hitchhiking

• offer rides to strangers

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

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

Who was Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall?

• The commander of the Navy

• The supreme allied commander of the Western Theater of the war

• The general who captured Berlin

First regular army corps for women

• Women's Fighting Corps

• Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps

• GIs

• Women's National Army Corps

A. Phillip Randolph forced President Roosevelt to back down and sign an executive order demanding all government agencies operate without discrimination. How did he do this?

• He was Vice President of the U.S. during the War

• He was President of the NAACP

• He threatened to march on Washington protesting discrimination.

• He threatened to expose the President's affairs to the press.

What were the “black panthers” known for?

• how fast their unit could move

• having all African American officers

• their ability to catch the enemy unaware

• their fearsome fighting and valor in combat

^{The _________ was the secret project in the United States that developed the atomic bomb}

• The New York Project
• The Manhattan Project
• The Atom Splitting Project
• The Nuclear Project