US7 : The Homefront, part 1

What was the role of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II?

• Providing medical aid to soldiers

• Building military vehicles

• Participating in over 15,000 sorties (bombing runs)

• Translating enemy messages

What was the significance of the Navajo Code Talkers?

• Developing new military strategies

• Providing intelligence to the enemy

• Encoding and decoding messages using the Navajo language

• Negotiating peace treaties with enemy nations

What symbolized the women who entered the workforce during World War II?

• Betty the Builder

• Rosie the Riveter

• Maggie the Mechanic

• Lady Liberty

What was the impact of the Second World War on the United States economy?

• Decreased national debt

• Stagnant economic growth

• Reduced unemployment rates

• Increased national debt

What was the response of African American union leaders to their exclusion from higher paying defense industry jobs?

• Boycotting the war effort

• Threatening to march on Washington

• Seeking diplomatic negotiations

• Accepting the status quo

What marked the end of the Great Depression for the United States?

• Transition into a communist economy

• Transition into a socialist economy

• Transition into a wartime economy

• Transition into a peacetime economy

What was the role of women in the military during World War II?

• Joining the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps

• Providing clerical support

• Serving as combat soldiers

• Leading military operations

After World War II began, factory production shifted from making consumer goods to -

• jeeps

• parachutes

• ammuniition

• luxury cars

The courage and skill of the Tuskeegee Airmen was -

• an increase in opposition to integrating the armed forces after the war.

• fewer minorities enlisted in the military.

• a decrease in opposition to integrating the armed forces after the war.

• more minorities enlisted in the military.

Which cryptographic technique of the U. S. military remained unbroken by the Axis powers during World War II?

• use of enigma machines to create encrypted messages

• use of an encryption based on a complex form of Morse Code

• use of an encryption based on the mathematical concept of pi

• use of American Indian languages to create encrypted messages