WWII Test - Unit Question 2 Flashcards
How did WWII impact civilians on the homefront?
What is Total War?
Every part of the country was mobilized to help the war effort
What did the Office Price Adminstration (OPA) do? (2 answers)
- Controlled rations
- Ensure prices didn’t get too high
What did the National War Labor Board decide? (4 answers)
Workers:
- Pay
- Hours
- Conditions
- Union rights (to prevent strikes)
What did the Smith Connolly Anti-Strike Act say?
Workers can’t go on strikes
What did the War Revenue Act say? (2 answers)
- Everyone paid income tax
- Tax rate raised
What were war bonds?
- Buy a bond and it collects interest that you get back after the war
- Basically loans to the government
What were the changed roles of women on the homefront?
Factory workers, war and homefront nurses, any open job opportunities
They filled spaces of men who had been drafted
Who were the Women Army Corps?
A group of overseas women who worked in the war behind the lines
What was the Bracero Program?
Migrant farmers could come work on farms, bypassing immigration laws
What were the Zoot Suit Riots?
Mexican American gang was arrested for murder, with no evidence, just racism. Sailors got into a fight with a Mexican gang over the arrest and the sailors got really mad and went to burn down the Mexican American’s houses
Who were the Tuskagee Airmen?
The first African American pilot group, they were successful
What was the Double V Campaign?
A campaign by African Americans to win both victory in the war and victory against racism within the US
Who did the Navajo Code Talkers do?
Native Americans who radioed war plans in their native language so it couldn’t be intercepted
What happened to Japanese Americans during the war? Why?
They were put in internment camps that had horrible conditions, with no evidence, just racism and war hysteria
Who ran in the Election of 1944? Who won? Who was the VP?
- FDR and Thomas Dewey
- FDR wins
- VP was Harry S Truman
