HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Factories stopped private production and focused on military production
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Minorities joined integrated military units
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Women served in combat roles for the Army and Navy
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Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps
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Detailed explanation-1: -American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297, 000 aircraft, 193, 000 artillery pieces, 86, 000 tanks and two million army trucks. In four years, American industrial production, already the world’s largest, doubled in size.
Detailed explanation-2: -Food, gas and clothing were rationed. Communities conducted scrap metal drives and planted “victory gardens.” To help build the armaments necessary to win the war, women and Blacks found employment as electricians, welders and riveters in defense plants.
Detailed explanation-3: -3) In what ways did the war transform life on the home front? The war transform life on the home front because it encouraged the growth of state bureaucracies, and woman started to work in jobs that men that were traditionally held by men. It inspired mass anti war protest movements.
Detailed explanation-4: -The fervor of the domestic front, mobilized by a massive propaganda effort headed by the Committee on Public Information, had three major battlegrounds: food, funding, and service.