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Chapter 12 Lesson 1 ¡ª Wartime America

American Economy in Wartime

1. Look at the graph on page 288. What was being produced?

Converting the Economy

2. Give the definition of cost-plus?

3. Why would a company want to convert to producing war materials? (business-wise, not their patriotism)

American Industry Gets the Job Done

4. What made Henry Ford¡¯s factories in Detroit so easy to convert to war production?

5. What was Henry Kaiser famous for building?

6. How many MORE ships could be produced in one year once Kaiser¡¯s shipyards applied mass production techniques

than could have been produced when he began?

Florida Connection (bottom corner p. 289)

7. What was the ¡°Mosquito Fleet¡±?

8. Why do you think it was made up of civilian vessels at first?

Life on the Home Front

9. What were some of the positives and negatives in society that were brought on by economic changes?

Women in Defense Plants

10. What do you think the image of Rosie the Riveter was supposed to symbolize for:

? women?

?

men?

African Americans Demand War Work

11. Paraphrase Executive Order 8802.

Korematsu v. United States (court case on bottom p.291)

12. Why did the Supreme Court rule in favor of the government¡¯s side of the case?

13. Under what circumstances, if any, do you think that the government should be able to suspend civil liberties of a

specific group of people?

Racism Leads to Violence

14. How many people died in Detroit during the race riot?

15. Why were Mexican American neighborhoods attacked in June 1943?

Japanese, German, and Italian American Relocation

16. What was the name of the camps where Japanese Americans were forced to live?

17. Why was the government so suspicious of Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants?

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