U.S. History - WWII Study Guide

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Which statement is most accurate about race relations during WWII?

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Despite support for the war effort, racial minorities often faced discrimination.

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How did WWII affect the home front in the United States?

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Gasoline was rationed, Victory Gardens were planted, and more women found jobs in factories.

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Which statement best explains why the U.S. mainland suffered little physical damage in WWII?

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Geographic isolation kept America protected from most of the fighting.

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Which most accurately characterizes the policy followed by the United States in its years between World War I and World War II?

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isolation from European military conflicts

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Changes to American society from mobilization of resources by the U.S. during WWII: planting of Victory Gardens, use of internment camps for Japanese Americans, rationing of goods needed for the war effort, increase of women in the work force, introduction of the "Good Neighbor Policy" and enactment of the Lend-Lease Act, Creation of the F.D.I.C. and passage of the Social Security Act, Passage of the Wagner Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the National Labor Relations Act.

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planting of Victory Gardens, use of internment camps for Japanese Americans, rationing of goods needed for the war effort, increase of women in the work force

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These posters were created during World War II to encourage American women to

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contribute to the war effort by working

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Which statement about the U.S. economy during WWII is accurate?

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Many essential goods were rationed.

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The relocation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II occurred primarily because

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military authorities saw them as a threat to national security

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Based on Charles Lindbergh's speech at a rally of the America First Committee on April 23, 194, what would he and those who agreed with him have been labeled?

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isolationists

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Which statement about the U.S. economy during WWII is accurate?

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Many essential goods were rationed.