Quiz 2 Flashcards
Congress first allowed women in the military May 1942 by creating the __________________________.
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
About a year after the WCCA the army replaced it with the________________________________.
Women’s Army Corps (WCA)
About 300 women serving as ___________________________. made more than 12,000 flights to deliver plans to the war effort.
Women Air Service Pilots (WASPs)
FDR would create the _________________________ that business leaders would serve on.
National Defence Advisory Committee
The government would sign ________________ agreeing to pay a company to the cost to make a product plus a guaranteed percentage as profit.
cost-plus contracts
________________ is a government contract to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce an item plus a guaranteed percentage.
Cost-plus
Congress would authorize the _____________________________ to make loans to companies wanting to convert to war production.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
The automobile industry was uniquely suited to _______________ military goods.
mass-producing
Automobile factories produced ____1______,___2___,___3_____,___4_____,___5___,___6____, and other military equipment.
- rifles
- helmets
- artillery
- trucks
- jeeps
- tanks
Henry Ford created an assembly line near Detroit for the ______________.
B-24 Liberator bomber
Ford’s remarkable achievement in _______________ was more than matched by Henry Kaiser’s shipyards.
aircraft production
Kaiser’s shipyards built many kinds of ships, but they were best known for basic cargo ships called ___________________.
Liberty ships.
FDR created the to direct priorities and production goals for military factories.
War Production Board
____________the economy finally ended the Great Depression, creating 19 million new jobs and doubling the average family’s income.
Mobilizing
Under pressure to produce, employers began to recruit _______________________.
women and minorities
The great symbol of the campaign to hire women was ____________________ a character from a popular song by the Four Vagabonds.
“Rosie the Riveter,”
A. Philip Randolph, the head of the ________________________-a major union for African American railroad workers decide to try and secure jobs for African Americans.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
On June 25, 1941, FDR issued __________________ which stated.
“There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.”
Executive Order 8802
To enforce the order, FDR created the _________________________, the first federal civil rights agency since ________________.
- Fair Employment Practice Commission
2. Reconstruction
