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APUSH Chapter 35 questions

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2. Once at war, Americans first great challenge was to
e) retool its industry for all-out war production
4. Japanese-Americans were placed in concentration camps during World War II
c) as a result of anti-Japanese prejudice and fear
5. The minority groups most adversely affected by Washington's wartime policies was
c) Japanese-Americans
10. Match each of the wartime agencies below with its correct function:
A. War Production Board
B. Office of Price Administration
C. War Labor Board
D. Fair Employment Practices Commission
1) assigned priorities with respect to the use of raw materials and transportation facilities
2) controlled inflation by rationing
3) imposed ceilings on wage increases
4) saw to it that no hiring discrimination was used against blacks seeking employment in war industries
b) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
11. While American workers, on the whole, were committed to the war effort, several unions went on strike. The most prominent was the
d) United Mine Workers
13. The employment of more than six million women in American industry during World War II led to
c) the establishment of day-care centers by the government
15. African-Americans did all of the following during World War II except
a) fight in integrated combat units
18. The northward migration of African-Americans accelerated after World War II because
c) Mechanical cotton pickers came into use
20. By the end of World War II, the heart of the United States' African-American community had shifted to
e) northern cities
39. In a sense, Franklin Roosevelt was the "forgotten man" at the Democratic Convention in 1944 because
b) he remained in Washington, D.C., to conduct the war
40. Action by the U.S. against Hitler's campaign of genocide against the Jews
a) was reprehensibly slow in coming
44. The "unconditional surrender" policy toward Japan was modified by
e) permitting the Japanese to retain a strong army but no real navy
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