WWII Tech/Industry & The Home Front

The poster is supporting the war effort by promoting a practice to conserve

• food.
• gasoline.
• meat fats.
• brass.

The facility that enriched uranium for the Manhattan Project was built at

• Los Alamos, NM.
• Knoxville, TN
• Oak Ridge, TN
• Manhattan, NY

Camp Campbell and Camp Forrest served not only as training areas for armor units in WWII but also as

• Prisoners of War centers.
• training areas for Airborne units.
• research areas for atomic bomb development.
• the training grounds for the 1st Special Service Force.

This WWII invention helped the Royal Air Force fight off Nazi bombing raids during the Battle of Britain.

• B-29 Superfortress
• V-1 rocket
• RADAR
• surface-to-air missiles

Penicillin was developed during WWII and helped men on the battlefield

• by helping to fight off the flu and other viruses.
• stay awake and alert for longer periods of time.
• survive their wounds by fighting off bacterial infections.
• by sanitizing untreated water supplies.

The tank that was mass-produced and most widely used by Allied forces in WW2 was the

• Panzer.
• Tiger.
• M1 Abrams.
• M4 Sherman

Which technology would prove most useful against the Japanese in the Pacific early on in WW2?

• aircraft carriers
• hydrogen bombs
• tanks
• land mines

What did Higgins Industries design that made a major contribution to WW2?

• amphibious landing craft
• submarines
• tanks
• dolphin harnesses

FDR created the Fair Employment Practices Committee to

• ban discrimination in industries that had received federal contracts.
• ensure that women were given equal pay for equal work.
• stop child labor in defense industries.
• give preferred treatment to those trained under the G.I. Bill.

Many African-Americans moved to the West during WWII primarily because

• of the new opportunities in defense industries.
• new jobs in the automobile industry were available.
• of Dust Bowl conditions in the South.
• Hollywood was looking for more colored actors/actresses.