WWII on the Homefront

Question 1

Wo used capatilism and wealth to sell the war effort to the Amercian people?

Answer 1

Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgen

Question 2

What was the increase in AA pop in Seatle?

Answer 2

4,000-40,000

Question 3

OMW?

Answer 3

necessity of incresed production required govt interaction with and directin of industrial production

Question 4

How many JA served in the military and on what team?

Answer 4

18,000

442 combat team

Question 5

What was the first solution for paying the war?

Answer 5

Money was borrowed

Question 6

What happened when racial tensions developed in the country?

Answer 6

Race riots took plae

Detroit had the largest killing 25 blacks and 9 whites in 1943

Question 7

What was the US case to stop internment camps?

Answer 7

Korematsu v US

Question 8

While war expanded oppurtunities for most, what were blacks expected to do?

Answer 8

fill service roles in the war effort

Question 9

What was Hitler’s final solution?

Answer 9

6 milion Jews dead

Several mill other holocaust victims

Question 10

How much did Congress each surviving internee in 1988?

Answer 10

$20,000

Question 11

How many NA served in the armed forces?

Answer 11

25,000

Question 12

What were women still responsible for?

Answer 12

traditional chores

Question 13

Who depended on Bracerolaboreres?

Answer 13

farmers

Question 14

What was the cost of WWII per day?

Answer 14

$250 mill

Question 15

By the millions, American citizens supported the war effort by doing what?

Answer 15

rationing their concumption of vital goods

new spending habits, pocket books, women baseball, new music, movies

Question 16

AAlthough rtioning and conservatoin helped, how did the govt need to get millions from?

Answer 16

borrowing

Question 17

What were volunteer activites?

Answer 17

air raid wardens
collection drives were organized to recycle many different goods
children served as tin can colonels or uncle sam’s scrappers

Question 18

Zoot Suit Riots (1943)?

Answer 18

Several thousand off duty Mexican American soldiers and sailors joined by hundred white civilians rampaged through downtown Los Angeles assulting Hispanics, blacks, and Filipino

Question 19

How did many show their support for the war?

Answer 19

Buying war bonds

Question 20

Office of Censorship?

Answer 20

designed to promote patrotism and influene public opinion
eamined letters going overseas
causualty figures from pearl harbor were not initially reported
photos of american war dead prohibited for a while
Later the media was encouraged to publicize accounts of Japanese autrocities vs US

Question 21

What was Executive Order 9066?

Answer 21

110,000 JA were relocated into internment camps
2/3 were US citizens
Most camps were in the remote parts of the west

Question 22

What did the Revenue Act show the growth of?

Answer 22

govt power in war time

Question 23

How did the automobile industry mobilize?

Answer 23

Chrysler:tanks (50,000 tanks)
Ford: Jeeps and planes (288,000 jeeps and one plane was created in 63 minutes)

Question 24

What happened to wages for all workers?

Answer 24

at least doubed during the war

Question 25

What was the OPA slogan?

Answer 25

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without

Question 26

Rosie the Riveter?1

Answer 26

Iconic image of woman dressed in overalls who became the symbol women in the male workforce launched by the govt

Question 27

What were some jobs that women had?

Answer 27

shipbuilders welders airplane manufacturer

Question 28

What was the Bracero program?

Answer 28

Increased employment for Mexican Americans farm workers

Question 29

What was the Supreme Court case that got rid of internment camps?

Answer 29

Korematsu v US

Question 30

What was the divorces in 1940 and 1944?

Answer 30

16 divorces/ 100 marriges | 27 divorces/100 marriges

Question 31

What was the US debt in 1945?

Answer 31

247 bill | half came from citizens

Question 32

What happened in regard to children?

Answer 32

Highschool enrollment dropped | juvenille deliquency increased

Question 33

John Keynes?

Answer 33

deficit spending | war bonds, bank loans, private investors

Question 34

What were many new women workers?

Answer 34

married

Question 35

Office of Price Administration?

Answer 35

OPA | in charge of rationing and was empowere to establish price controls to counteract the war time inflation

Question 36

Who were used as Code Talkers?

Answer 36

Navajo

Question 37

What did FDR do with Randolph's march?

Answer 37

Set up Fair Employment Practices Commisson to halt inequality

Question 38

How many people were in the armed forces in 1941 and 1945?

Answer 38

1.6 million | 15 mill men and 350,000 women

Question 39

What happened to marragies, divorce, and birthrate?

Answer 39

increased

Question 40

What was the Revenue Act?

Answer 40

Instituted witholding taxes Tax rates for all was increased The national govt generated 20 times the tax revenue in 1945 than it had in 1940

Question 41

War Productions Board?

Answer 41

WBA produced more military goods than Germany, Italy, Japan combined Conversio of economy from civilian to military suplies

Question 42

To foster industrial production, who realized tha industry must be allowed to make a profit on the production of war material?

Answer 42

Secretary of War Henry Stimson

Question 43

What did the Revenue Act do?

Answer 43

increased the numer of Americans paying taxes

Question 44

OPA?

Answer 44

limitation on consumer goods became necessary as production was geared toward military needs

Question 45

How was unemployment?

Answer 45

very low

Question 46

What did the Wildcat strikes influence?

Answer 46

Smith Connally Act | limited strikes

Question 47

Where did many NA leave to work at defense plants?

Answer 47

reservations

Question 48

While fighting for democracy overseas, many black activists advocated what?

Answer 48

increased democracy and racial equality at home | Double V campain

Question 49

Why did some AA leave the south?

Answer 49

hoped to leave discrimination and Jim Crow laws

Question 50

What expectations were women put on?

Answer 50

wives mothers sex objects

Question 51

What is Executive ORder 8802?

Answer 51

Prohibited race discrimination in the defense industry

Question 52

How many blacks left the south to go to the north for war industries?

Answer 52

700,000

Question 53

What did the average wages increase to each year?

Answer 53

$457 to $1976

Question 54

War production caused employment oppurtunities to expand. What did this end?

Answer 54

GD

Question 55

Who issued a formal apolgy to internment victims in 1982?

Answer 55

Govt Comission

Question 56

How many tanks did the Michigan plant m;ake?

Answer 56

22,000 | Germany had 25,000 total

Question 57

American Civil Labor Union?

Answer 57

Tries to get the liberties back from the 9066 | Tries to get liberties back when they are infringed on

Question 58

What put question to American values?

Answer 58

internment of Japanese challenges to civil liberties debtes over race and segregation the decision to drop the A bomb

Question 59

Between 1941-1945, how many women joined the workforce?

Answer 59

over 6 mill

Question 60

What did the Opa create?

Answer 60

rationbooks each family had one items that were rationed were: sugar, cheese, coffee, rubber, gasoline National speed limit was 35 mph

Question 61

What program did the US negotiate in 1942 for Hispanics?

Answer 61

Braceroprogram

Question 62

What were Wildcat Strikes?

Answer 62

protest low pay and shortage of vital goods for domestic economy

Question 63

What was teh second solution for paying the wa?

Answer 63

Revenue Act 1942

Question 64

Who ran the WBA?

Answer 64

Don Nelson | former head of Sears and Roebuck

Question 65

What ended the GD and helped minorities and women improve their social positions?

Answer 65

Mass mobilization of American society to supply troops for the war efforts and have a workforce on the homefront

Question 66

Congress of Racial Equality (1942)?

Answer 66

Created Civil Rights Organization during WWII that comitted itself to using nonviolent techniues to end racial segregation

Question 67

How many AA served in teh armed forces in segregated units?

Answer 67

million

Question 68

Following the attacks of Pearl Harbor, who did many americans blame?

Answer 68

JA

Question 69

A Philip Randolf?

Answer 69

Blck leader who organized a march on DC in 1941 to pressure FDR to issue an executive order to ban discrimination industries Executive Order 8802

Question 70

What was the increase in AA pop in Detroit?

Answer 70

Increased by 50,000

Question 71

Why were workers getting little while industrilists were getting rich?

Answer 71

price nd wage fixing of OPA

Question 72

What happened to the states?

Answer 72

Industry states grew as agri states population decreased

Question 73

How did the US contribute to WWII?

Answer 73

victories over fascism | new opurtunities for women and minorities

Question 74

What was the US debt in 1941?

Answer 74

48 bill

Question 75

Japanese American Internment (1942)?

Answer 75

Executive Order 9066 FDR autoritzed the removal of enemy aliends from miitary areas Over 110,000 JA living in western US were moved to nternment camps, except Hawaii