Child Labor
Miscellaneous
Labor
Culture
100
What Disney character is used to to represent the common worker?
What is Donald Duck
100
What was the first thing rationed in U.S?
What is rubber
100
The approximate number of women working during World War II.
What is 18 million?
100
Name four means of media used for propaganda?
What is posters, advertising, books, radio, movies, comic books, leaflets
200
What age group replaced the men after they left or war?
What is the teenagers
200
Which government agency started the rationing program?
What is the Office of Price Administration
200
This government agency was able to regulate the items created for the war effort, as well as to expand industry to meet war needs and allocate scarce materials--such as gasoline, steel, or rubber--to proper war production areas.
What is the War Production Board?
200
What are the two major labor unions who supported FDR and grew rapidly during the years of the war?
What is the Congress of Industrial Organization and the American Federation of Labor
300
Name two materials kids tried to recycle?
What is waste paper, tin, steel, rubber.
300
Which was the union that refused to cooperate withe government?
What is the United Mine Workers
300
This person’s image spawned the popular image of “Rosie the Riveter”.
What is Rose Will Monroe of the Ford Motor Company.
300
What two animation studios aided the war effort by making almost all their cartoons about the war?
What is Warner Bros. and Walt Disney
400
Altering this form of transportation saved the military 2,000 tons of steel for war goods
What is the bicycle
400
What was the purpose of the Victory Gardens?
What is the purpose of victory gardens is to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort.
400
These government agencies were created over pressure from the African American leaders pushing for racial equality during wartime production.
What are the Congress of Racial Equality and the Fair Employment Practices Commission?
400
What romantic drama starring Claude Rains is based in WW2?
What is Casablanca
500
What type of plant did children collect for use of making lifejackets?
What is Milkweed Pods
500
If a family has 4 member in the household, how many ration books in total does the family have?
What is 4 ration books
500
These are the full names for the abbreviations WAC and WAVE.
What are the Women Army Corps and the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service?
500
This club awarded a flag to fly over their factory is each factory worker contributed 10% to the war fund?
What is the 10% club
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