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PP. 503-535 IN CHAPTER 10 OF WHO BUILT AMERICA

On Monday, April 18th, there will be a timed quiz on ten of the following questions. Make sure that you can answer all of the questions

1. Industries that produced military goods for the war efforts:

A. Were guaranteed a profit by the government. B. Produced the goods at cost as their patriotic contribution. C. Sometimes made a profit; sometimes produced at cost.

2. In 1940, the top 100 firms produced 30 percent of the nation’s manufactured goods. By the end of the war, these same companies held what percentage of all military and civilian war contracts with the government?

A. Under 30 percent. B. 30 percent. C. 70 percent. D. 100 percent.

3. During World War Two, government anti-trust laws:

A. Were suspended. B. Were enforced much more strictly. C. Stayed the same.

4. Which area of the country attracted the most defense and military contracts during World War Two?

A. California. B. Maine and Vermont. C. Kentucky and Tennessee. D. Florida. E. Illinois.

5. Which area of country experienced the biggest exodus of workers during World War Two?

A. The South. B. The West Coast. C. The Upper Middle West. D. New England.

6. During World War Two, the percentage wage increase grew at a greater rate at:

A. The bottom of the wage scale. B. The top of the wage scale.

7. Average life expectancy during World War Two:

A. Increased. B. Stayed the same. C. Decreased.

8. During World War Two, the number of women in the workforce:

A. Decreased by 50 percent. B. Slightly decreased. C. Stayed about the same. D. Slightly increased. E. Almost doubled.

9. During World War Two, the percentage of women as total union membership:

A. Decreased by half. B. Slightly decreased. C. Stayed about the same. D. Slightly increased. E. Doubled.

10. What happened to the more than 900 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany on the ship St. Louis in 1939?

A. Most were welcomed to settle in the U.S. B. Only 30 percent were allowed to settle in the U.S. C. Most returned to Germany, but survived the war. D. Most ended up in Nazi death camps.

11. The most decorated unit in the U.S. army during World War Two, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was a segregated unit made up of:

A. Japanese-Americans. B. German-Americans. C. Italian-Americans. D. African-Americans. E. Native Americans.

12. Hirabayashi v. U.S. (1943) and Korematsu v. U.S (1944) were:

A. Naval battles that turned the tide of the Pacific war against Japan. B. Naval battles in which the U.S. lost 35 destroyers. C. Supreme Court cases declaring internment constitutional. D. Supreme Court cases declaring internment unconstitutional.

13. During World War Two, membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP):

A. Increased by 10%. B) Increased ten-fold. C) Decreased by 10%. D. Decreased ten-fold.

14. Who led the 1941 March on Washington Movement?

A. Martin Luther King. B) Malcolm X. C. Marcus Garvey. D. W.E.B. DuBois.

E. A. Philip Randolph.

15. The Zoot Suit Riots targeted:

a. Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles. B. African Americans in Detroit. C. Japanese-Americans on the West Coast. D. Chinese laundry workers in New York City.

16. During World War Two, union membership:

A. Increased slightly. B. Increased by 50%. C. Decreased slightly. D. Decreased by 50%.

17. The Roosevelt administration __________________the Nazi policy exterminating Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and political prisoners.

A. Knew and did little about. B. Knew about and aggressively moved to stop. C. Knew about and silently supported. D. Knew virtually nothing about,

18. The authors of the text argue that Harry Truman’s main political target when he ordered the air force to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was:

A. Japan. B. The Soviet Union. C. Republican critics in Congress.

19. Immediately after the war, in 1946-47, inflation:

A. Dramatically increased. B. Dramatically decreased. C. Stayed about the same.

20. In the fall of 1945, organized labor:

A. Came out against price controls. B. Agreed to extend a wartime no-strike pledge. C. Launched the largest wave of strikes since 1919.

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