Question 1
Which of the following statements about women workers on the home front is true?
A) The majority of women contributed to the war effort through victory gardens and other domestic labor.
B) Women played vital roles in the shipyards and in the aircraft industry.
C) Employment of women was discouraged during the war years.
D) The percentage of women working in manufacturing jobs was the same as before the war.
Question 2
During the war years, the number of __________.
A) marriages increased
B) divorces increased
C) marriages decreased
D) divorces decreased
Question 3
Which statement about Native Americans in World War II is true?
A) The government did very little to assimilate Indians into the war effort.
B) The average cash income of Indians experienced a decrease during the war.
C) They often served as effective code-talkers by using Native American languages.
D) There was an increase in the number of Native Americans who lived in urban areas.
Question 4
What prompted J. Robert Oppenheimer to say, Now I am become death?
A) viewing the grim remains of the Battle of Saipan
B) observing the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz
C) seeing a nuclear fission bomb tested for the first time
D) watching the Battle of Stalingrad from a barn in the countryside
Question 5
The Manhattan Project was the code name for __________.
A) the D-Day invasion
B) rationing programs in the United States
C) the project to develop the atomic bomb
D) the American attack at Iwo Jima
