WWII: Wartime America

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African-Americans still facing racism wanted to prove themselves by...

• working in factories

• joining the military

• helping with Victory gardens

• selling war bonds

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Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

• a group of female airplane manufacturers who produced more airplanes than any other group

• a group of Hispanic pilots who conducted raids over Germany to stop military production there

• a squadron of African American pilots who flew 200 missions without a single casualty

• the largely untrained air forces who flew brave missions over Europe

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How did World War II affect women's roles in the military?

• Women were appointed to serve in military agencies, but were never made officers.

• Women were not allowed to enter the military, so they worked in factories and increased war production.

• Women were used as morale boosters at home and held fundraisers across the country.

• Women were assigned to vital noncombat services, such as delivering war planes.

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What were cost-plus contracts?

• discounted rates that businesses gave the government in exchange for war production contracts

• guaranteed profits for businesses on the quick production of war materials

• contracts for war production on which companies placed competing bids

• money given to companies to quickly hire the people necessary to produce war materials

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What was the purpose of the National Defense Advisory Committee?

• to help businesses and the government work together on war production

• to ensure that Americans of Japanese and German descent suffered no prejudice

• to lobby Congress for the funds necessary to build two navies

• to advise the president on the military movements of Germany and Japan

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What was the significance of Executive Order 8802 and the Fair Employment Practices Commission?

• They created a national sense of entitlement to civil service jobs.

• They ended the Japanese American internment camps.

• They ensured that no federal agency or war factory could discriminate on the basis of race.

• They restricted the hiring of minorities in order to ensure there would be jobs for returning soldiers.

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How did World War II affect the average working-class family?

• It gave them a sense of patriotism and caused them to work for lower wages.

• It devastated them with the loss of family members to the war.

• It created a new economic class that competed with the poor for resources.

• It brought them into the mainstream of society.

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What new authority did Congress give to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to ensure more production of war materials?

• discounted rates that businesses gave the government in exchange for war production contracts

• guaranteed profits for businesses on the quick production of war materials

• contracts for war production on which companies placed competing bids

• money given to companies to quickly hire the people necessary to produce war materials

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The immediate cause of the United States entry into WWII was that the United States

• had to fulfill its collective security agreements with Western European nations

• felt it necessary to defend the principle of freedom of the seas

• suffered a direct military attack

• was read to use its superior military and atomic capabilities

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Which statement is accurate concerning the forced relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII?

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the action as a military necessity

• Few of those relocated were actually United States citizens

• Widespread Japanese Americans disloyalty and sabotage preceded the forced relocation

• The Japanese American experience was similar to what happened to German Americans at this time

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Which of the following was known for being the 1st all-black fighter pilot group?

• The Tuskegee Tank-men

• The Tuskegee Airmen

• The Harlem Renaissance

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What was created in order to limit costs and rent for people?

• Office of Price Administration(OPA)

• Office of Cost Administration(OCA)

• Office of Money Administration(OMA)

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Each month you were given a stamp book a listed amount of groceries you could purchase, this was a way for the gov't to...

• withhold products for themselves later on

• help the OPA on pricings items in stores

• ration products to help with wartime shortages

• keep people in line from not re-selling the products

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The Navajo Code Talkers were...

• Native Americans who fought in the European Theater against the Germans, stopping Hitler's advance

• Asian American's who helped break the Japanese secret codes on battle plans

• Navajo members used their native language as code and it was never broken by the Japanese

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What was Executive Order 9066 created and signed by President FDR?

• establishing new lands for boot camps to be built for army training across the U.S.

• created more money for the american people in these harsh times

• established zones for the relocation of Japanese-Americans into camps away from the public

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Some Japanese Americans in order to prove their allegiance to America...

• Helped gather more Japanese Americans into the camps

• Worked on making better camp conditions for everyone

• volunteered to join the military and fight for the United States