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World War II Part 2 - The Homefront: Crash Course US History

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
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1.

Which of the following best aligns with John's opening statements about the effects of World War II on the US?

a)

World War II brought about tremendous changes in the United States.

b)

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.

c)

World War II saw a continuation of many New Deal Policies.

d)

All of the above.

2.

What are examples of government intervention during World War II?

a)

Federal agencies like the War Production Board, War Manpower Commission, and Office of Price Administration.

b)

Massive rationing of food and supplies.

c)

Entire industries were completely taken over by the government.

d)

The fixation of wages, rents, prices, and especially production quotas.

3.

Which are the reasons that unemployment dropped from 14% in 1940 to 2% in 1943?

a)

13 million Americans were serving in the military in some capacity.

b)

The war kicked the American economy into overdrive. The US gross national product went from 91 billion to 214 billion during the war.

c)

There were fewer opportunities for immigrants in the agricultural sector.

d)

Government policies favored greater laissez-faire policies.

4.

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:

a)

Taxes

b)

War bonds

c)

Plunder

d)

Reparations

5.

Which of the following best describes WWII's effect on big business?

a)

Big business got even bigger.

b)

Big business reduced its size and profits due to government intervention.

6.

Which region of the US became an industrial center due to the war?

a)

The West Coast

b)

The East Coast

c)

The Midwest

d)

The Deep South

7.

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?

a)

The South

b)

The East Coast

c)

The Midwest

d)

The West Coast

8.

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?

a)

Organized labor (unions)

b)

Immigrant labor

c)

Migrant labor

d)

Minority labor

9.

From a human history standpoint, one of the biggest changes is that many of the workers in those factories were:

a)

Women

b)

Latinos

c)

African Americans

d)

Japanese Americans

10.

Who was a symbol of women in the workforce?

a)

Rosie the Riveter

b)

GI Jane

c)

Amelia Earhart

d)

Eleanor Roosevelt

11.

Were many women able to keep their industrial jobs after the war was over?

a)

No

b)

Yes

12.

Which are FDR's 'Four Freedoms'?

a)

Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

b)

Freedom of specialization, freedom of work, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

c)

Freedom of homework, freedom of Crash Course worksheets, freedom from tests, and freedom from pop quizzes.

d)

Freedom of sickness, freedom of healthcare, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

13.

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?

a)

Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

b)

The War Powers Act

c)

Executive Order 9066

d)

Executive Order 8802

14.

How did WWII help reshape how Americans saw themselves?

a)

Because the Nazis were racists, Americanism would mean diversity, tolerance, and equality for all people.

b)

Because the Nazis were racists, Americanism would mean less diversity, less tolerance, and limiting equality for all people.

c)

Because the Soviets were our allies, Americanism would mean greater equality for all people even if it were at the cost of personal freedoms.

d)

All of the above

15.

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?

a)

Zoot Suit Riots

b)

The Haymarket Affair

c)

The Anti-oriental Riots

d)

The Rodney King Riots

16.

The war years saw a dramatic increase in immigration from Mexico under which program, lasting until 1964?

a)

Bracero program

b)

New Deal

c)

Dreamers Program

d)

DACA

17.

25 thousand of these Americans fought in WWII, although their reservations, being largely rural, didn't really share in the wartime prosperity.

a)

Native Americans

b)

Hispanics

c)

African Americans

d)

Latin Americans

18.

Which ethnic group suffered from horrible racism and one of the worst violations of civil liberties in America's history during WWII?

a)

Japanese Americans

b)

Mexican Americans

c)

African Americans

d)

Native Americans

19.

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?

a)

Executive Order 9066

b)

The War Powers Act

c)

Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

d)

Executive Order 8802

20.

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?

a)

Fred Korematsu

b)

Daniel Inouye

c)

George Takei

d)

Hideki Tojo

21.

Which group experienced the greatest change during WWII?

a)

African Americans

b)

Mexican Americans

c)

Japanese Americans

d)

Native Americans

22.

Which Presidential order banned discrimination in defense hiring and created the Fair Employment Practices Commission?

a)

Executive Order 8802

b)

The War Powers Act

c)

Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

d)

Executive Order 9066

23.

World War II saw a continuation of which demographic pattern that saw African Americans leave the South for industrial centers in the North & West?

a)

The Great Migration

b)

The Second Exodus

c)

White Flight

d)

The Second Middle Passage

24.

Many African Americans saw themselves as engaged in which campaign for victory over the Axis powers abroad and over racism in the US?

a)

Double V

b)

Human Rights movement

c)

Tuskegee

d)

FEPC

25.

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)

A. Philip Randolph

b)

Martin Luther King Sr.

c)

Bayard Rustin

d)

Jesse Jackson

26.

After WWII, did the U.S. return to its policy of isolationism?

a)

False

b)

True

27.

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?

a)

Tehran

b)

Yalta

c)

Potsdam

d)

All of the above

28.

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?

a)

Bretton Woods

b)

Dumbarton Oaks

c)

United Nations (UN)

d)

Potsdam

29.

Following WWII, the US took the leading role in establishing which organization to ensure peace?

a)

United Nations

b)

Dumbarton Oaks

c)

Yalta

d)

Bretton Woods