SS Week 26

The Women’s Army Corp supported the war effort in __________.

• World War II

• the Korean War

• the Vietnam War

• all the above

Nurses in the Army Nurse Corps often cared for injured soldiers __________.

• while shooting back at enemy soldiers

• while flying them out of the battlefield in helicopters

• while they were under fire themselves

• in bright orange uniforms so that soldiers would know not to shoot them

If a wounded soldier was cared for by a field nurse, what was their likelihood of surviving?

• 55 percent

• 73 percent

• 87 percent

• 96 percent

During WWII, the workforce in Alabama was made up largely of __________.

• pacifists and college students

• African Americans and women

• teenagers and European immigrants

• Cubans and Peruvians

About how many Alabamians served in the military during WWII?

• 100,000

• 200,000

• 300,000

• 400,000

Why did Mobile, Montgomery, and Huntsville grow during WWII?

• There was plenty of work and good wages.

• Wounded soldiers were sent there to recover.

• They were popular places for European immigrants to live.

• Property prices were at an all-time low.

Rationing is __________.

• a game American soldiers developed on battleships during WWII

• a method used for training student pilots

• a military strategy used by General MacArthur in the Pacific Theater

• a system of setting limits on purchasing high-demand goods

Points were needed in order to buy __________.

• tires

• sugar

• bacon

• all the above

To make more canned goods available to soldiers, Alabamians __________.

• planted “victory gardens”

• canned food for soldiers

• started canned food donation drives

• held bake sales to raise money for canned food

During WWII, about __________ women went to work in shipyards.

• 500

• 1,000

• 1,500

• 2,000