Starter quiz
- A ______ is a person whose job involves joining pieces of metal together.
- 'riveter' ✓
- Which of the following statements is a description given by Douglas MacArthur, an army general, of the Women’s Army Corps?
- Douglas MacArthur called the WACs “my best soldiers”.
- Douglas MacArthur called the WACs “my worst soldiers”.
- Douglas MacArthur called the WACs “my powerful soldiers”.
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- Which of the following statements is evidence for discrimination affecting Black nurses in the Army Nurse Corps?
- They were not paid for their work.
- They could not treat White patients. ✓
- They were not given proper training.
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- Which laws legalising racial segregation remained in place throughout WW2?
- Jim Crow ✓
- Fair Employment Practice Committee
- the Double V Campaign
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- What was the name of the campaign supporting the USA’s war aims to promote democracy and freedom abroad and for African Americans at home?
- 'Double V Campaign ' ✓
- A system of limiting the amount of something that each person is allowed to have is ______.
- 'rationing' ✓
Exit quiz
- What keyword means being encouraged to develop, grow or increase its activity?
- 'Stimulated' ✓
- In which year was the New Deal introduced?
- 1929
- 1933 ✓
- 1939
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- Which of the following sentences accurately describes the purpose of the Emergency Banking Act?
- to create more jobs in the banking sector
- to increase the number of banks in the US
- to restore confidence in the banking sector ✓
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- Match the problem from the Great Depression with the response provided by the New Deal.
- agricultural crisis⇔‘Alphabet Agencies’ like the AAA set up ✓
- poverty⇔Social Security introduced in 1935 ✓
- unemployment⇔CWA and CCC set up ✓
- Which of the following statements best demonstrate the discrimination faced by some Americans when looking for work during WW2? Select the correct answers.
- Women gained new jobs but were paid less than men. ✓
- One aircraft manufacturer hired 10 African Americans from a workforce of 30 000. ✓
- The female workforce increased from 12 million to 19 million.
- Roughly one million African Americans fought for the US.
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- In which year did the US begin fighting in WW2?
- 1939
- 1941
- 1933
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Key learning points
- The New Deal supported the American economy.
- The 1930s continued to be a difficult time for many people.
- WW2 stimulated the American economy.
- Unemployment dropped and investment increased during the war.
- Experiences of economic recovery in the USA were uneven.
Common misconception
The benefits of WW2 were experienced evenly by all groups of Americans.
Women and African Americans enjoyed many benefits from the stimulus created by WW2, but continued discrimination in the armed forces and on the home front meant that they did not always benefit as much as White Americans did from wartime recovery.
Keywords
Stimulated - something is stimulated if it is encouraged to develop, grow or increase its activity
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