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WorksheetsWorld War II Part 2 - The Homefront: Crash Course US History
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which of the following best aligns with John's opening statements about the effects of World War II on the US?
World War II brought about tremendous changes in the United States.
World War II shaped how Americans would come to see themselves and how they would want to be seen by the rest of the world.
World War II saw a continuation of many New Deal Policies.
All of the above.
What are examples of government intervention during World War II?
Federal agencies like the War Production Board, War Manpower Commission, and Office of Price Administration.
Massive rationing of food and supplies.
Entire industries were completely taken over by the government.
The fixation of wages, rents, prices, and especially production quotas.
Which are the reasons that unemployment dropped from 14% in 1940 to 2% in 1943?
13 million Americans were serving in the military in some capacity.
The war kicked the American economy into overdrive. The US gross national product went from 91 billion to 214 billion during the war.
There were fewer opportunities for immigrants in the agricultural sector.
Government policies favored greater laissez-faire policies.
Government expenditures during the war were twice the amount they had been in the previous 250 years combined. Although a lot of this was financed with debt, much of the war was paid for with:
Taxes
War bonds
Plunder
Reparations
Which of the following best describes WWII's effect on big business?
Big business got even bigger.
Big business reduced its size and profits due to government intervention.
Which region of the US became an industrial center due to the war?
The West Coast
The East Coast
The Midwest
The Deep South
Which region of the US was hit especially hard by WWII as many people moved to other regions of the US due to having only two major cities?
The South
The East Coast
The Midwest
The West Coast
In order to prevent labor strife and keep the factories humming so that war production would not decrease, the government forced employers to recognize which labor group?
Organized labor (unions)
Immigrant labor
Migrant labor
Minority labor
From a human history standpoint, one of the biggest changes is that many of the workers in those factories were:
Women
Latinos
African Americans
Japanese Americans
Who was a symbol of women in the workforce?
Rosie the Riveter
GI Jane
Amelia Earhart
Eleanor Roosevelt
Were many women able to keep their industrial jobs after the war was over?
No
Yes
Which are FDR's 'Four Freedoms'?
Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Freedom of specialization, freedom of work, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Freedom of homework, freedom of Crash Course worksheets, freedom from tests, and freedom from pop quizzes.
Freedom of sickness, freedom of healthcare, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Though FDR's New Economic Bill of Rights was blocked by Southern Democrats, Congress did pass which bill to attempt to prevent widespread unemployment for returning soldiers?
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
The War Powers Act
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 8802
How did WWII help reshape how Americans saw themselves?
Because the Nazis were racists, Americanism would mean diversity, tolerance, and equality for all people.
Because the Nazis were racists, Americanism would mean less diversity, less tolerance, and limiting equality for all people.
Because the Soviets were our allies, Americanism would mean greater equality for all people even if it were at the cost of personal freedoms.
All of the above
Though WWII moved the US toward greater principles of equality, there was still a fear of minority groups, which contributed to race riots in Detroit and what series of riots against Mexicans in Los Angeles in 1943?
Zoot Suit Riots
The Haymarket Affair
The Anti-oriental Riots
The Rodney King Riots
The war years saw a dramatic increase in immigration from Mexico under which program, lasting until 1964?
Bracero program
New Deal
Dreamers Program
DACA
25 thousand of these Americans fought in WWII, although their reservations, being largely rural, didn't really share in the wartime prosperity.
Native Americans
Hispanics
African Americans
Latin Americans
Which ethnic group suffered from horrible racism and one of the worst violations of civil liberties in America's history during WWII?
Japanese Americans
Mexican Americans
African Americans
Native Americans
Which Presidential order expelled all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast to internment camps where they lived in makeshift barracks under the eyes and searchlights of guards?
Executive Order 9066
The War Powers Act
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
Executive Order 8802
Which Japanese American appealed his conviction for failing to show up for internment all the way to the Supreme Court, where he lost in yet another horrendous Supreme Court decision?
Fred Korematsu
Daniel Inouye
George Takei
Hideki Tojo
Which group experienced the greatest change during WWII?
African Americans
Mexican Americans
Japanese Americans
Native Americans
Which Presidential order banned discrimination in defense hiring and created the Fair Employment Practices Commission?
Executive Order 8802
The War Powers Act
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
Executive Order 9066
World War II saw a continuation of which demographic pattern that saw African Americans leave the South for industrial centers in the North & West?
The Great Migration
The Second Exodus
White Flight
The Second Middle Passage
Many African Americans saw themselves as engaged in which campaign for victory over the Axis powers abroad and over racism in the US?
Double V
Human Rights movement
Tuskegee
FEPC
Angered by discrimination in defense employment, which black labor leader threatened a march on Washington demanding access to defense jobs, an end to segregation, and a federal anti-lynching law?
A. Philip Randolph
Martin Luther King Sr.
Bayard Rustin
Jesse Jackson
After WWII, did the U.S. return to its policy of isolationism?
False
True
Which of the following meetings among the US, UK, and USSR planned for a more peaceful and prosperous post-war world, established the idea that Germany would be divided, Nazis tried for war crimes, and laid the foundation for the Cold War by allowing Soviet influence in Eastern Europe?
Tehran
Yalta
Potsdam
All of the above
What conference in 1944 established America's economic dominance as the dollar (replacing the pound), and created the World Bank to help rebuild Europe and also to help developing countries and the IMF to stabilize currencies?
Bretton Woods
Dumbarton Oaks
United Nations (UN)
Potsdam
Following WWII, the US took the leading role in establishing which organization to ensure peace?
United Nations
Dumbarton Oaks
Yalta
Bretton Woods
