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WorksheetsWWII and the Homefront
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 46mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The name of the Native American hero in Iwo Jima who Johnny Cash made a famous song for is...
a)
Lac Oreilles
b)
The Code Talkin' Kid
c)
Ira Hayes
d)
Thomas Wingate
2.
Which of the following IS NOT one of FDR's four freedoms?
a)
Freedom of Speech
b)
Freedom to Worship
c)
Freedom to Buy
d)
Freedom from Want
3.
What is the name of the famous artist who's works were used to promote FDR's Four Freedoms?
a)
Claude Monet
b)
Benny Goodman
c)
Tommy Dorsey
d)
Norman Rockwell
4.
The signing of the treaty led to the recruitment and processing of laborers from Mexico would be called...
a)
The Bracero Program
b)
The Cross-Border Treaty
c)
Treaty of Hidalgo
d)
Workers for Our War
5.
After the Mexican-American workers program ended, the government began _______________ when many were deported, even legal citizens.
a)
Deportation Waves
b)
Operation Wetback
c)
Operation Hidalgo
d)
Expatriation
6.
This man threatened FDR that he and thousands more would march on DC if African-Americans continued to face employment discrimination...
a)
A. Philip Randolph
b)
Martin Luther King Jr.
c)
Marcus Garvey
d)
W.E.B Du Bois
7.
The Zoot Suit Riots were an eruption of tension that led to 5 days of rioting between which groups...
a)
African-Americans and US Army Soldiers
b)
Mexican-American youth and White Servicemen
c)
Japanese-Americans and White Servicemen
d)
Multiracial Street Gangs and White Servicemen
8.
The name of trial where 9 young Mexican-American youth were falsely convicted of murder was...
a)
The Zoot Suit Trial
b)
The 38th st Trial
c)
The Bracero Trial
d)
The Sleepy Lagoon Trial
9.
Which Executive Order banned racial discrimination in the war industries?
a)
EO 8802
b)
EO 9980
c)
EO 9981
10.
Which Executive Order resulted in immediate desegregation of armed forces?
a)
EO 8802
b)
EO 9980
c)
EO 9981
11.
Which group filled in the majority of the wartime labor shortage?
a)
Young and single females
b)
Married stay-at-home females
c)
African American females
d)
Educated females
12.
___________________ was the great symbol of the campaign to hire women.
a)
Lady Liberty
b)
Susan the Savior
c)
Rosie the Riveter
13.
This man protested going to interment camps and argued that his rights had been violated and took his case to the Supreme Court...
a)
Fred Korematsu
b)
George Takei
c)
Masato Nakae
d)
Pat Morita
14.
How did the US apologize to surviving Japanese-American internees in 1988?
a)
Each internee got an official apology letter from the president.
b)
Each internee got $20,000 in reparations
c)
Each internee got a special medal of recognition
d)
Each internee got free housing and college tuition
15.
Japanese-Americans from _____________ were the only ones sent to interment camps...
a)
The East Coast
b)
The Great Plains
c)
The Deep South
d)
The West Coast
16.
The role of the OPA (Office of Price Administration) was to...
a)
regulate the price of most goods and material of the economy
b)
regulate the price of farming products and wages
c)
regulate printing of money
d)
regulate coupons for rationing
17.
The OES (Office of Economic Stabilization) was responsible for...
a)
regulating the price of most goods...
b)
regulating the price of farming products and wages...
c)
regulating the printing of money...
d)
regulating coupons for rationing...
18.
_______ was the limiting of purchasing many products to make sure there was enough available for military use.
a)
Couponing
b)
Dividing
c)
Reserving
d)
Rationing
19.
_________ was when volunteers would collect spare rubber, tin, aluminum, and steel and send them off to war industry factories.
a)
Upcycling Depositories
b)
Scrap Drives
c)
Recycling Units
d)
Scrap Searches
20.
Aside from taxes, _______ was responsible for most of the war funding...
a)
Rationing Coupons
b)
International Donations
c)
Government Savings
d)
War Bonds
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