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WWII Home Front.
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What finally ended the depression and put many unemployed Americans back to work?
a) The Fair Deal
b) Capitalism
c) World War II
d) The New Deal
What did the United States government encourage women to do when the United States entered World War II?
a) Wait for their husbands at home
b) Spy on their German neighbors
c) Increase their consumer spending
d) Take industrial jobs
What was a negative result of World War II?
a) Internment of Japanese Americans
b) End of the the Great Depression
c) African American workers were more respected because they were needed in defense plants
d) Women became respected as workers in all kinds of factory jobs
Which is not a way losses of life and injuries sustained during the World Wars affected life back at home?
a) Millions died leaving spouses and children with unbearable emotional loss and significant economic hardship.
b) Most men and women were proud of their accomplishments and were able to quickly reclaim their places back at home.
c) Many women had no choice but to develop a different way of life by working outside the home in order to provide for their fam
d) Many men and women who survived returned home with disabilities that kept them from being able to work again.
How did economic roles for women NOT change during World War II?
a) Women worked in new jobs that were previously considered unavailable to women.
b) Women often continued to work at home as minority males took job openings.
c) Women entered the military and government.
d) Women often became the primary financial support for their families while men were away fighting.
How were race relations in America during WWII?
a) only women worked in war industries
b) segregated water fountains were abolished
c) the war ended all segregation
d) war industries were desegregated
Which answer best represents a way Americans could support the war effort from home?
a) Supporting tax breaks
b) Protecting water supplies
c) Buy more groceries
d) Recycling scrap metal
Which statement is true of Clara Barton and Rosie the Riveter?
a) Both represented ways for women to provide help to Americans during wartime.
b) Both provided ways for workers to strengthen the economy during wartime.
c) Both provided medical assistance to American soldiers during wartime.
d) Both represented how women were needed to build weaponry during wartime.
Why were internment camps set up in the United States during World War II?
a) Women and children needed to be taken care of while their husbands and fathers were off to war.
b) The United States believed that the Japanese Americans could have been the enemy and could not be trusted.
c) Japanese Americans refused to fight in the war against their own countrymen.
d) The United States wanted to protect the Japanese Americans from their own country of Japan.
During World War II, Americans supported the war effort by —
a) conserving resources
b) protecting large cities
c) building houses for returning soldiers
d) buying more food products
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