WWII Day 2: The Home Front

Multiple Choice

 This WWII cartoon was used to encourage Americans to...

• Discriminate
• Ration
• Drive more 
• carpool less

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___________________________ helped to provide soldiers with food because Americans could rely on themselves

• Victory Gardens
• Victory Drives
• Scrap Metal Drives
• War bonds

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The main purpose of the World War II coupons shown in this illustration was to:            

• pay defense contractors for military hardware

• choose men for the draft

• conserve essential goods for military use

• encourage increased production of consumer goods

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How did women support the war effort during WWII?

• They maitained the home

• worked industrial jobs (defense industries)

• They were only nurses

• They were teachers

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What was the goal of posters such as Rosie the Riveter?

• To make sure Victory Gardens were grown

• To motivate proper use of the Ration Books

• To motivate women to find work in factories as men were drafted

• To encourage women to take on combat roles overseas

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What was the purposeof the Japanese Internment camps?

• Capture Japanese soldiers that bombed Pearl Harbor?

• Detain Japanese Americans in case of Espionage or Treason

• Protect Americans from all the Japanese undercover soldiers

• Incarcerate Japanese soldiers in the Pacific

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What group of soldiers encoded military communications so that they could not be deciphered by the Japanese? 

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Black Pathers

• Flying Tigers

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Determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military aviators at a time when the U.S. military still practiced racial segregation. They participated in over 15,000 sorties and earned over 100 Flying Crosses.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

• Charles Lindbergh

• Black Panthers

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Who were the Tuskegee airmen?

• drivers

• Alabamian pilots

• African American military pilots

• People from Tuskegee

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What major role did Native Americans play in WWII?

• they were banned from serving in the military

• they used their medicines to help aid the soldiers

• they used their language as code to help transmit messages

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What was the goal of the Bracero Program?

• To encourage women to sign up in factory jobs

• To bring farm workers from Mexico because US men were being drafted

• To create a network of spies in Latin America to fight German spies

• To gain additional factory workers from Latin American countries

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Which describes Executive Order 9066?

• To create a draft lottery system for military service

• It officially brought the U.S. into World War II

• It forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps against their will

• It forced the repatriation of Mexican Americans to reduce job competition

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What event in World War 2 caused Americans to support Executive Order 9066 and increased hatred of the Japanese?

• Bataan Death Marches

• The Invasion of Poland

• The Pearl Harbor attack

• The Battle of Britain

Multiple Choice

Which case(s) below had a similar "majority decision/opinion" (National security at times trumps personal freedoms) justification as the Korematsu v. U.S. case according to SCOTUS?

• Schenck v. U.S.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Munn v. Illinois

• Scopes v. TN