Building the Military
A Changing Economy
Funding The War
Vocabulary
100

Government Issue

What is a G.I.?

100

settle labor disputes

What does the National War Labor Board do?

100

10 x the amount of WWI

How much was being spent on WWII?

100

across the ocean

what is overseas?

200

Women's Army Corps

What is the WAC?

200

Cars

What did the War Production Board create during peacetime?

200

Raised business taxes and required income taxes

What did the Revenue Act of 1942 do?

200

to move

what is shift?

300

Offices and Nurses

What did women in the military do?

300

Assembly lines

Where did the women in the factories work?

300

withholding taxes from paychecks

What is income tax?

300

to make scarce items available to people on a limited basis

What is ration?

400

Copilots, repairs, fly weather planes

What did the WASPS do?

400

2.5 million

How many women went to work in the factories?

400

protective measures taken by civilians in case of attack

What is civil defense?

500

Handle weapons, dig trenches, teawmwork

What did soldiers learn at basic training?

500

All industries changed

What happened in 1942?
500

camp where Japanese Americans were kept during WWII

What is an internment camp?