Army
Minority Groups
Unpaid Labor
Workforce
100

True or False: Women in the Army never went overseas

What is FALSE

100

Two factors that could influence the way a woman experienced the war

What is economic status, race, religion, ethnicity or where they live

100

Things women would make to send to soldiers overseas

What are knitted items such as socks, blankets

100

How the number of women in the workforce changed between 1939 and 1944

What is, it doubled

200

The reason so many young people on the home front were trained in First Aid

What is a shortage of doctors and nurses that went to war front

What is a sense of usefulness

200

The reason Japanese people were discriminated against in WW2

Japan was on the other side of the war

200

A new domestic responsibility women had during the war

What is... finances, property management, physical maintenance tasks

200

One job that was considered "untraditional" for a woman to do that the time

What is a factory, shipyard or farm worker

300

Which Branch of the armed forces were women NOT allowed to join? (Army, Navy, Air Force)

None of them

300

What kept indigenous women from contributing to the war effort

Institutional Racism

300

One fear of the general public when it came to women solely raising the next generation

What is the fear that the women would not raise them right, and they would grow up to be delinquents

300

Name two roles that were considered "appropriate" for a women to do

What is nursing, caretaking, teaching, fruit packing, and working as a clerk or secretary

400

Roles that women would take on whilst in the army (at least two)

What are jobs such as cooks, secretaries, map readers, drivers and mechanics

400

The area of Canada where Japanese internment camps where established 

What is the east (British Columbia + Alberta area)

400

How would women fundraise for federal war financing drives and/or different charities

What are dances and other social events

400

Businesses that would be established nearby women's places of work, to preserve her "femininity"

What are salons