Deck 1: The War Years

Question 1

Right after Pearl Harbor, the wartime government declared that employing women

A) Was not going to be encouraged
B) Was the only answer to the manpower shortage
C) Was not necessary
D) Was unthinkable

Answer 1

B

Question 2

US leaders tried to make the war feel real to Americans at home by

A) Using propaganda
B) Allowing journalists onto the front lines
C) Instituting stringent rationing
D) All of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The primary purpose of government bonds was to

A) Raise money for the war effort
B) Enable lower taxes at home
C) Encourage free trade
D) Involve American citizens in the war effort by giving them a financial stake

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The drive to sell war bonds was spearheaded by

A) Employer incentives
B) Local children, especially in scout troops
C) Hollywood stars
D) Wounded war veterans

Question 5

World War II ended the Great Depression thanks to

A) Government spending on the military
B) The resurrection of the Roosevelt coalition
C) Increased federal jobs programs after 1941
D) The Manhattan Project

Question 6

The use of deficit spending to prime the economy during periods of economic downturn is called

A) Classical liberalism
B) Hobbesian economics
C) Keynesian economics
D) Socialism

Question 7

During the war, the Congress of Industrial Organizations led workers to

A) Increase their hours and reduce their pay in order to help the war effort
B) Let the government bargain on their behalf with companies
C) Successfully organize new factories and increase union membership
D) Be outlawed by Congress

Question 8

The Office of Price Administration restricted the sale of _______ of the goods sold in retail stores during the war.

A) 10%
B) 25%
C) 50%
D) 90%

Question 9

A redistribution of income took place during the war years, with

A) The top 5% of wage earners increasing their share of total income
B) The bottom 40% of wage earners increasing their share of total income
C) The top 1% of society increasing their share of total income by only half has much as during the 1930s
D) The top 10% of Americans earning most of the wealth

Question 10

-Why are these women, cleaning parts for welding, being photographed looking like they're doing dishes?

A) To convince Americans that women's war work was similar to their traditional roles
B) To convince women that they had the skills to help with the war effort
C) To convince men to let their wives go to work
D) To scare women away from these jobs

Question 11

The size of the female labor force increased by _______ at the outbreak of war.

A) 13%
B) 36%
C) 57%
D) 83%

Question 12

Some observers concluded that a revolution in the status of women in America had occurred because

A) Women were working outside the home for the first time
B) The majority of women workers were young and single
C) The majority of women in war industries had worked before the war
D) Married, middle-aged women were just as likely to be working as young, single women

Question 13

The 1941 March on Washington Movement was led by

A) W.E.B. Du Bois
B) A. Philip Randolph
C) Ella Baker
D) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 14

Executive Order 8802

A) Ended discrimination in hiring in the federal government and defense industries
B) Desegregated the military
C) Ended the practice of Jim Crow schools
D) Outlawed lynching

Question 15

The Fair Employment Practices Commission proved to be a hollow concession to the demands of Black Americans, primarily because

A) It was not backed up by Congressional legislation
B) It lacked enforcement power and funding
C) It was declared to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
D) All of the above

Question 16

Executive Order 9066

A) Desegregated the military
B) Ended discrimination in the defense industry
C) Desegregated the federal government
D) Authorized relocating Japanese Americans from their homes to internment camps

Question 17

Americans of which ethnic background were moved to internment camps during the war?

A) Japanese
B) German
C) Italian
D) All of the above

Question 18

Navy sailors attacked Mexican American citizens in Los Angeles in the summer of 1943 in the zoot suit riots. For young Mexican Americans, zoot suits represented

A) Traditional culture
B) Their disaffection from wartime culture
C) Their patriotism
D) A form of protest against segregation in the military

Question 19

The 78th Congress, elected in 1942, represented _______ the New Deal

A) A vast increase in support for
B) Lukewarm support for
C) A reign of conservative withdrawal from
D) A wartime refocus on

Question 20

The Smith-Connally Bill set back organized labor by

A) Authorizing the president to seize plants where strikes interfered with wartime production
B) Banned political contributions by labor unions
C) Established a 30-day cooling off period for negotiations prior to any strike
D) All of the above