Ch.26-2 (WWII) Review

________ required men between the ages of 21-35 (later 18-38) to register to be drafted for WWII.

• Selective Training and Service Act

• War Production Board

• Zoot-Suit Riot

What did Executive Order 9066 allow the government to do? (Internment)

• imprison Mexican Americans for their involvement in rioting.

• force Jewish people to relocate.

• imprison thousands of Japanese Americans.

To finance the war effort, the government raised taxes and sold liberty bonds.

• True

• False

The ________ were African American pilots that flew thousands of successful combat missions in North Africa and Italy.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Red Tails

• British Royal Airforce

Women were urged to fill positions that were left open by men, that had to leave their jobs to fight in WWII.

• True

• False

The job of the __________ was to oversee the conversion of factories to war production. (producing military equipment)

• Select Service Act

• War Production Board

• Finance Board

In Los Angeles in 1943, groups of sailors attacked Mexican Americans beginning the __________ which lasted for ten days.

• Zoot-Suit Riot

• Japanese Internment Camp

• World War II

President ________ signed an official apology in 1988 for the wartime incarceration, and allotted $20,000 to any living person that was imprisoned.

• Kennedy

• Reagan

• Roosevelt

________ strongly opposed the Japanese Internment.

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

• Martin Luther King Jr.