African Americans & Women
The Economy
Other Groups
Pre War and Pre US involvement
100
True or False:
Women in the Women's Army Corps fought in combat.
What is false?
100
The government's attempt to curb the consumption of food, fuel, and other materials needed for the war effort.
What is rationing?
100
This order allowed for the forcible removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
100
The Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937 were meant to keep the United States from this.
What is going to war?
200
Discrimination, unfair wages, and working fulltime at home and in the workplace are all examples of this.
What are challenges women faced?
200
To help combat inflation this organization instituted price controls.
What is the Office of Price Administration? (OPA)
200
G.I.
What is government issue?
200
The United States response to aggressive nations in the 1930s.
What are sanctions? (restrictions on the sale of items and loaning of money to countries at war)
300
This fictional character is a famous representation of all of the real women who worked to support the war effort.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
300
This organization was in charge of organizing the wartime economy.
What is the War Production Board?
300
Mexican American teens were targeted by white mobs during this.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
300
President Roosevelt sought to prevent war from spreading to the US by helping nations defend themselves against aggressive nations through this program.
What is the Lend-Lease program?
400
President Roosevelt's response to A. Philip Randolph's threat to organize a protest march by African Americans on Washington D.C.
What is signed an executive order outlawing discrimination in defense industries?
400
Recycling metals, planting victory gardens, and carpooling are all forms of this.
What is citizen aid to the war effort?
400
This controversial Supreme Court case upheld the conviction of a man who tried to evade going to the internment camps.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
400
This set of Laws in Germany led to an increase in Jewish migration to the United States.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
500
The double sided campaign of fighting fascism in Europe and racism in the United States.
What is the Double V Campaign?
500
This is how the American government borrowed the money to help finance the war.
What is selling war bonds?
500
The 1924 National Origins Act made it difficult to for Jews to do this following Kristallnacht.
What is flee to the US?
500
This entertainment company created propaganda cartoons for the United States during World War II.
What is Disney?