- The War Years Test Bank Chapter.1

Chapter 01 - The War Years

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 1

1) Right after Pearl Harbor, the wartime government declared that employing women

a. Was not going to be encouraged

b. Was the only answer to the manpower shortage

c. Was not necessary

d. Was unthinkable

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 2

2) US leaders tried to make the war feel real to Americans at home by

a. Using propaganda

b. Allowing journalists onto the front lines

c. Instituting stringent rationing

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 3

3) The primary purpose of government bonds was to

a. Raise money for the war effort

b. Enable lower taxes at home

c. Encourage free trade

d. Involve American citizens in the war effort by giving them a financial stake

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 4

4) The drive to sell war bonds was spearheaded by

a. Employer incentives

b. Local children, especially in scout troops

c. Hollywood stars

d. Wounded war veterans

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 5

5) World War II ended the Great Depression thanks to

a. Government spending on the military

b. The resurrection of the Roosevelt coalition

c. Increased federal jobs programs after 1941

d. The Manhattan Project

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 6

6) The use of deficit spending to prime the economy during periods of economic downturn is called

a. Classical liberalism

b. Hobbesian economics

c. Keynesian economics

d. Socialism

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 7

7) During the war, the Congress of Industrial Organizations led workers to

a. Increase their hours and reduce their pay in order to help the war effort

b. Let the government bargain on their behalf with companies

c. Successfully organize new factories and increase union membership

d. Be outlawed by Congress

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 8

8) The Office of Price Administration restricted the sale of _______ of the goods sold in retail stores during the war.

a. 10%

b. 25%

c. 50%

d. 90%

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 9

9) A redistribution of income took place during the war years, with

a. The top 5% of wage earners increasing their share of total income

b. The bottom 40% of wage earners increasing their share of total income

c. The top 1% of society increasing their share of total income by only half has much as during the 1930s

d. The top 10% of Americans earning most of the wealth

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 10

10) Why are these women, cleaning parts for welding, being photographed looking like they’re doing dishes?

a. To convince Americans that women’s war work was similar to their traditional roles

b. To convince women that they had the skills to help with the war effort

c. To convince men to let their wives go to work

d. To scare women away from these jobs

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 11

11) The size of the female labor force increased by _______ at the outbreak of war.

a. 13%

b. 36%

c. 57%

d. 83%

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 12

12) Some observers concluded that a revolution in the status of women in America had occurred because

a. Women were working outside the home for the first time

b. The majority of women workers were young and single

c. The majority of women in war industries had worked before the war

d. Married, middle-aged women were just as likely to be working as young, single women

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 13

13) The 1941 March on Washington Movement was led by

a. W.E.B. Du Bois

b. A. Philip Randolph

c. Ella Baker

d. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 14

14) Executive Order 8802

a. Ended discrimination in hiring in the federal government and defense industries

b. Desegregated the military

c. Ended the practice of Jim Crow schools

d. Outlawed lynching

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 15

15) The Fair Employment Practices Commission proved to be a hollow concession to the demands of Black Americans, primarily because

a. It was not backed up by Congressional legislation

b. It lacked enforcement power and funding

c. It was declared to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 16

16) Executive Order 9066

a. Desegregated the military

b. Ended discrimination in the defense industry

c. Desegregated the federal government

d. Authorized relocating Japanese Americans from their homes to internment camps

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 17

17) Americans of which ethnic background were moved to internment camps during the war?

a. Japanese

b. German

c. Italian

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 18

18) Navy sailors attacked Mexican American citizens in Los Angeles in the summer of 1943 in the zoot suit riots. For young Mexican Americans, zoot suits represented

a. Traditional culture

b. Their disaffection from wartime culture

c. Their patriotism

d. A form of protest against segregation in the military

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 19

19) The 78th Congress, elected in 1942, represented _______ the New Deal

a. A vast increase in support for

b. Lukewarm support for

c. A reign of conservative withdrawal from

d. A wartime refocus on

Type: multiple choice question

Title:Chapter 1 Question 20

20) The Smith-Connally Bill set back organized labor by

a. Authorizing the president to seize plants where strikes interfered with wartime production

b. Banned political contributions by labor unions

c. Established a 30-day cooling off period for negotiations prior to any strike

d. All of the above