EOC Spot Check Homefront WWII

What is the overall purpose of this Executive Order issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

• to integrate the armed services

• to end segregation in the south

• to ban discrimination in defense industry jobs

• to allow African Americans to be drafted into the military

Which civil rights leader would have played the largest role in pressuring this executive order dealing with fair employment in WWII?

• A. Philip Randolph
• W. E. B. Du Bois

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• B. Martin Luther King Jr.

Which was seen as a precursor to the Civil Rights Movement?

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Operation Torch

• Double V Campaign

What was the purpose behind the call for Victory Gardens during World War II?

• The Victory Gardens provided the government another commodity to tax in an effort to raise additional funds for the war.

• Victory Gardens provided fresh fruit and vegetables that could be shipped overseas to American soldiers fighting in the war.

• Canned fruit and vegetables were rationed during the war so civilians were encouraged to grow their own produce to supplement.

• Planting Victory Gardens was a way to provide an alternative to supporting troops for those families that could not afford to buy bonds.

This photograph shows U.S. residents at an internment camp during World War II. Many of these people had been residents of what state?

• California

• New York

• Florida

• Texas

What are the sites located on this map?

• German POW camps during World War II

• Areas of suburban growth after World War II

• Internment camps for Japanese during World War II

• CCC Camps established during the New Deal

From 1942-1946, approximately 120,000, Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps. Which of these BEST explains why this was a Constitutionally questionable practice?

• Their rights to worship freely had been denied.

• They were not allowed to express themselves freely.

• People were denied their right to a trial before being interned.

• The Federal government denied States the right to detain the people.

Which does NOT describe a way that U.S. civilians contributed to the war effort during World War II?

• rationing

• draft evasion

• buying war bonds

• women entering the workforce

The United States financed its efforts in World War II by

• increasing tariffs on imported goods.

• borrowing money from the Allied Powers.

• nationalizing several major industries.

• increasing tax rates and selling war bonds.