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What was one long-term outcome of the experience of gays and lesbians in California's cities during World War II?
 
  a. They faced discrimination similar to that in other parts of the country, and most left California at the end of the war and converged on more liberal cities like New York.
  b. They faced discrimination similar to what African Americans and Mexican Americans experienced, and joined civil rights organizations dominated by those groups.
  c. After the war, many moved to smaller cities and towns, so their numbers were dispersed throughout the state.
  d. After the war, gay men and lesbians formed new organizations to fight for their civil rights, and they became the foundation for the larger, more militant gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 2

What impact did women's wartime employment have on gender roles?
 
  a. Women were welcomed as equals in the workplace.
  b. Wartime employment ushered in changes to ease the double burden of women workers having to juggle work and family responsibilities.
  c. At the end of the war, women were expected to return to their roles in the home while most women wished to continue working.
  d. The wartime jobs empowered most women to continue in jobs defined as male work even after the war was over.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c



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