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
