Mobilization on the Home Front

Question 1

Mobilization

Answer 1

preparing troops and supplies for war or other emergency

Question 2

The selective training and service act of 1940 established

Answer 2

peacetime conscription. (draft)

Question 3

National Defense Advisory Commission (1940)

Answer 3

• JOB: Prepared US for war

Question 4

Defense Plant Corporation (1940)

Answer 4

• JOB: Gave money to business to fund war production

Question 5

War Production Board (1942)-

Answer 5

JOB: Oversaw wartime production and decided how to use resources

Question 6

Office of War Mobilization (1942)-

Answer 6

JOB: Coordinated wartime business and labor

Question 7

US built:

Answer 7

More Aircraft, ships than Germany, Japan and Italy combined
Produced more than a billion barrels of oil
made more than 50 million tones of steel for the Allies each year

Question 8

The US gross national product (GNP)

Answer 8

more than doubled between 1940 and 1944

GNP is the value of all the goods and services produced in a country during one year

Question 9

Radar-

Answer 9

Used to find enemy planes and ships when poor visibility

Helped win the Battle of Britain