the quiz

African Americans benefited financially from FDR signing Executive Order 8802 which 

• outlawed discrimination based on race in war production jobs

• provided better housing for African Americans in Northern cities

• created specials jobs for African Americans in the South

• allowed African-Americans to harvest crops in California

What was a major reason for wartime rationing?

• restricting lower-priced food imports

• ensuring that American troops had enough supplies

• providing jobs for the unemployed

• preventing deflation in the currency or money systme

The Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. United States claimed that ...

• in times of war the U.S. could suspend citizens' rights in the name of national security

• Japanese American citizens had the same constitutional rights as other Americans

• All people are equal regardless of race

• Japanese American interment camps were not necessary during the war

Rosie the Riveter was a symbol of ...

• the campaign to hire women to work in factories during WW2.

• women who joined the armed forces during WW2

• Japanese civilians who were sent to internment camps

• Mexican farmworkers who helped harvest crops

To pay for the War the federal government sold? 

• Stocks 
• War bonds 
• Land 
• Silver/Gold 

Regulating the amount of goods a consumer can obtain

• Office of War Information
• Bataan Death March
• rationing
• war bonds

Permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior internment camps with primitive and crowded conditions away from Western coastal regions

• anti-Semitism
• Executive Order 9066
• war bonds
• rationing

What does it mean to mobilize?

• To walk fast

• To pull out of a war

• To get prepared for war

• To operate a tank

Communication aimed at convincing others of a particular idea or position

• Propaganda
• Bias
• slogan
• Name-calling

During WWII, families were issued coupons to use for things like meat and gas. This is an example of

• rationing
• conservation
• government spending
• internment