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WWII Homefront

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name given to "all the women" that worked in the defense plants?

a)

Mary the Rosie

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Sandra the Riveter

d)

Mary the Riveter

2.

How were many Japanese Americans treated in the U.S. during WWII?

a)

with fairness and empathy

b)

with honor for their service

c)

with distrust and prejudice

d)

with doubt and confusion

3.

African Americans served as pilots in which unit?

a)

Parachute Troopers

b)

Tuskegee Airmen

c)

Honor Guards

d)

Honor Airmen

4.

Who was forced into internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

a)

Irish Americans

b)

German Americans

c)

Jewish Americans

d)

Japanese Americans

5.

African American soldiers were not segregated?

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What president will desegregate the armed forces?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Harry S. Truman

7.

Women return to the workforce because-

a)

men no longer wanted the jobs

b)

men have moved away and don't need to work

c)

men have entered the war

d)

men have become stay at home fathers

8.

WWII brought an end to the Great Depression in the U.S..

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Americans at home supported the war efort by-

a)

isolating German, Italian, and Japanese immigrants

b)

refusing to buy war bonds

c)

conserving and rationing resources

d)

importing and exporting supplies to Great britain

10.

What are three ways Americans helped on the homefront?

a)

planting Victory Gardens

b)

using rationing books

c)

buying extra food

d)

saving scrap metal