World War II Part 2: Crash Course US History #36

True or False, by the end of the war, the US was very different?

• False

• True

True or False, American car manufacturers made a lot of cars during 1941 and 1942

• True

• False

How much did unemployment drop?

• From 14% to 2%

• From 25% to 18%

Wartime production produced...

• An airplane every 5 minutes and a ship a day

• A ship every 5 days and an airplane a minute

By the end of the war the 

• 100 largest companies controlled 10 percent of assets

• 200 largest companies controlled half of all business assets

The woman in this picture is

• Betty the Barmaid

• Rosie the Riveter

The lower paying jobs that women had to return to after the war included

• Domestic, Food service and teachers

• Secretaries, Salespeople and telephone operators

FDR's four freedoms include

• Freedom from Zombies

  Freedom from Grammar

  Freedom from Math

  Freedom from Broccoli

• Freedom of Speech

  Freedom of Worship

  Freedom from Fear

  Freedom from Want 

   

The number of returning GI's who were helped by the GI bill was around...

• 5,000,000

• 1,000,000

True or False, the racism that Nazis practiced led post-War Americans to embrace multiculturalism.

• True

• False