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| What did President Roosevelt feel that the success of the Allies depended on? | America's ability to make enough bombers, tanks, uniforms and war materials |
| What had happened to the factories in Europe? | They had been destroyed |
| This office was developed to keep shortages from causing inflation. | Office of Price Administration |
| This agency directed teh conversion of peacetime industries to those that made war goods. | War Production Board |
| This was formed to coordinate issues related to war production during World War II. | Office of War Mobilization |
| Who was often called the "Assistant President" | James F. Byrnes |
| Who came up with mass production techniques for ship building? | Henry Kaiser |
| This was the name given to a ship that usually carried troops or supplies, but could be converted to hospital ships. | Liberty ship |
| What was the cost-plus system for military contracts? | It guranteed profits for businesses. The military paid the development and production costs, plus a percentage of costs as profit. |
| What company did Robert Woodruff head? | Coca-cola |
| What term was given to the United States since they produced so many weapons for the Allies? | "Great Arsenal of Democracy" |
| What happened to union membership during World War I? | it increased |
| What were lockouts? | it was a tactic in which an employer keeps employees out of teh workplace to avoid meeting their demands. |
| what are wildcat strikes? | Strikes that were organized by the workers themselves and not the union |
| what paid for about 41% of World War II? | higher taxes |
| What was the Revenue Act o 1942? | It increased the number of Americans who paid taxes and it introduced the idea of withholding money from people's pay |
| Who was the economist who argued for deficit spending during the depression? | John Maynard Keynes |
| What affect did deficit spending have? | It turned the economy around, brought wartime prosperity, but also created a huge national debt |
| What was the baby boom? | The increase in the birth rate after World War II. Nearly double the rate for 1930's. |
| Americans now had more money to spend, but did not buy cars or home appliances, why? | These items were unavailable so they looked for other ways to spend their money. |
| Which company developed a market for small-sized paper back books? | Pocket Book Company |
| What was the first pocket book? | Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People |
| Who founded the All-American Girls Baseball League? | Phillip Wrigley |
| What famous song did Bing Crosby sing during the World War II Era and it has been famous ever since? | Irving Berlin's White Christmas |
| How did manufacturers try to save cloth when making clothes? | Men's suits no longer had vests, patch pockets, or cuffs and women's skirts were cut shorter and straighter |
| Why did sugar become scarce during World War II? | the Philippines came under Japanese control |
| How did the Office of Price Administration try to distribute items fairly? | Each item that was scarce was given a point value and consumers were issued ration books worth a certain number of points. |
| What were victory gardens? | These were gardens that individual citizens planted so more farm food could be sent to soldiers. |
| What popular saying was used during World War II to remind Americans to be thrifty? | "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." |
| Who was Rosie the Riveter? | She was a fictional character who worked in a defense plant. The government used posters of her to attract women to the workforce. Patriotism was her main motive for taking a war job. |
| What problems did women in the work force face during World War II? | Managers were uneasy about mixing men and women and anyone caught fraternizing would be fired. There were very few daycares for women to leave their children, women earned much less than men doing the same job, and women began at the bottom because they lacked seniority. |
| What is seniority? | A status that is derived from length of service |
| How did the National War Labor Board feel about women earning less than men? | They declared taht if a woman was doing the same quantity and quality of work, they should be paid the same as men |
| What issues did working American women face after WWII? | The government had assumed that after the war was over, women would just go back home and returning servicemen expected to get their job back and return to the kind of family life they had known. |
| On what issues did women's magazines focus on? | homemaking, cooking and childcare |
| This is the name for neighborhoods where members of a minority group are concentrated. | ghettos |
| What was the Double V campaign? | It was a campaign launched by an African American newspaper. The first V was for a victory against the Axis and teh second V was for a victory in winning equality in America. |
| What was CORE? | Congress of Racial Equality. It believed in using non-violence to end racism and they organized the first sit-in at a restaurant. It paved the way for the civil rights actions. |
| What was the Fair Employment Practices Committee? | It heard complaints about job discrimination |
| Who wanted to organize a March on Washington in 1941, but called it off when Roosevelt signed an executive order that opened jobs without discrimination based on race, creed, color, or national origin. | Philip Randolph |
| What was the Bracero Program? | There was a shortage of laborers in the U.S. so we made an aggreement with Mexico for the transportation, food, shleter,and medical care for thousands of bracceros. |
| What are bracceros? | Spanish workers |
| Spanish speaking neighborhoods were called __________. | barrios |
| What was a Zoot Suit? | a long draped jacket, baggy pants, and tight cuffs. Mexicans often wore them and had their hair slicked back ducktail style. |
| Which minority suffered the most discrimination of World War II? | Japanese Americans |
| People born in the United States of parents who had emigrated from Japan were called __________. | Nisei |
| This was set up to remove anyone of Japanese ancestry. | War Relocation Authority |
| Where were the Japanese Americans taken? | to internment camps |
| How did the Supreme Court rule on cases that challenged the internment policy? | During wartime, relocation was considered constitutional |
