World War II Home Front

Question 1

1-million in non-combat military jobs, such as cooks, messengers, mess hall attendants, etc.

Accepted Answer

How Black Americans contributed to the war effort

Question 2

Managed wage controls over airplane+auto+shipping+mining+telegraph & RR industries during war

Accepted Answer

National Labor Board

Question 3

Antibiotics (penicillin), insecticide DDT, invention of jet engine, rockets, atomic bomb, radar

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How scientists contributed to the war effort

Question 4

Manhattan Project-The secret U.S. government project to develop the atomic bomb

Accepted Answer

How scientists contributed to the war effort

Question 5

What is V-E Day?

Accepted Answer

Victory Europe Day - May 8, 1945

Question 6

Act permitted the U.S. to support its war interests without being overextended in battle

Accepted Answer

Lend-Lease Act, 1940

Question 7

Illegal for any resident or citizen of US to teach or advocate violent overthrow of U.S. gov

Accepted Answer

Smith Act (Alien Registration Act, 1940)

Question 8

Whether Executive Order #9066 of 1942 violated 14th Amendment right to equal protection of law

Accepted Answer

Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Question 9

Wartime tax on excess profits prevented the kind of windfalls made during World War I

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 10

Why did Michigan stress civil defense during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Its location and importance in production made it a target

Question 11

2 million women who replaced men In the nation’s war manufacturing plants at 60% less pay

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How women contributed to the war effort

Question 12

Coupons during WW II to help gov. control supply & demand for items needed by the armed forces

Accepted Answer

Ration Stamps

Question 13

Supreme Court held WWII internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional

Accepted Answer

Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Question 14

Consolidate existing government information services & deliver propaganda both at home & abroad

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Office of War Information

Question 15

To prevent wartime labor stoppage power to arbitrate labor disputes that arose during the war

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National Labor Board

Question 16

Which list has items produced here in Michigan for the war effort?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 17

Law forced non-citizens to register with the U.S. government so that they could be tracked

Accepted Answer

Smith Act (Alien Registration Act, 1940)

Question 18

Purpose: To control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II

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Office of Price Administration

Question 19

Act enabled the British to keep fighting until events led America into World War II

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Lend-Lease Act, 1940

Question 20

Wartime no-strike pledge-in return gov offered arbitration to determine wages & contracts terms

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How labor unions contributed to the war effort

Question 21

Can the President violate 5th Amendment right to life, liberty, and property during war?

Accepted Answer

Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Question 22

During WWII these West Coast Japanese Americans were rounded up & sent to internment camps

Accepted Answer

Nisei

Question 23

What did the Michigan Ford factory at Willow Run produce for the war effort?

Accepted Answer

B-24 Liberator Bombers

Question 24

They kept Inflation below 30% for the World War II years

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Ration Stamps

Question 25

A few saw combat such as those in the Merchant Marine and the all colored 761st Tank Battalion

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How Black Americans contributed to the war effort

Question 26

In Hawaii, the Japanese Americans were not rounded up and put in Internment Camps

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Nisei

Question 27

Cheating when people managed to shop & buy rationed goods for higher prices than was set by OPA

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Black Market

Question 28

Refers to industry of the U.S., as the primary supplier of matériel for the Allied war effort

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Arsenal of Democracy

Question 29

Independent agency to coordinate all government agencies involved in the war effort

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Office of War Mobilization (OWM)

Question 30

Used for purchase of staples such as meat, shoes, butter, sugar, coffee etc.

Accepted Answer

Ration Stamps

Question 31

What did the U.S. lend and lease during World War II?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 32

What is V-J Day?

Accepted Answer

Victory Japan Day - August 15, 1945 or September 2, 1945

Question 33

Act transferred equipment to Britain, the Soviet Union, China, Brazil, etc.

Accepted Answer

Lend-Lease Act, 1940

Question 34

How did the U.S. primarily finance World War II?

Accepted Answer

By raising taxes & tapping into Americans' personal savings

Question 35

17,000 joined the military & fought with valor in Europe

Accepted Answer

Nisei

Question 36

They lost their homes, businesses, and other property because of the doubt about their loyalty

Accepted Answer

Nisei

Question 37

US only Allied nation at full food production so we feed all allies & ourselves

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How farmers contributed to the war effort

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