The United States at War: The Home Front

Attack on Pearl Harbor

100

When did Japan attack the U.S Pacific fleet

December 7,1941

200

Where did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?

Oahu Hawaii

300

How many Americans died during Pearl Harbor?

2,403 Americans 

400

What was the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?

Japan wanted to rule the Pacific Ocean

500

What was the specific ship that was hit and sunk during Pearl Harbor?

USS Arizona

Wartime Production

100

What do many historians believe that America's greatest contribution to the allied war effort was?

Wartime production

200

What is the name of the federal agency set up to ease the conversion from peacetime to wartime production?

War Production Board 

300

The demands of wartime production brought a final end to the...

Great Depression

400

What group of people did wartime production allow to take jobs in heavy industry for the first time?

Women

500

Name 3 essential goods that the War Production Board found necessary to ration

gasoline, rubber, steel, copper, aluminum, and canned, frozen, or processed foods

Draft into the war

100

What does "WAC's" stand for?

"Women Army Corps"

200

What ages were considered to be drafted for war?

18-24

300

What did the WAC's do during the war?

made bullets and mines, drove vehicles, and served as clerks.

400

By the war was over, how many men had voluntarily enlisted or been drafted?

15 million

500

What was a critical role minorities played in the war?

Their language, "Navajo" was used to form secret codes that Japanese code-breakers could not decipher.