1. Mobilizing for Defense SMART Assessment
Mr. White’s US History 1

2. Question #1
Establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military was known as
Rationing
Limiting
Expanding
Minimizing

3. Question #2
This board decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries.
The War Production Board
The Massive Production Board
The Consumer Production Board
The Utility Production Board

4. Question #3
Women made many contributions to the war effort of the United States in World War II. One of their biggest contributions to the war effort was:
Serving in support positions as clerks or secretaries
Assisting military medical staff as nurses
Working in war industries and factories
All of the above were ways that women contributed to the United States’ war effort

5. Question #4
African Americans faced a great deal of discrimination in the United States during World War II, but many still chose to serve the United States. One of the discriminatory practices that African Americans experienced in World War II was that they were:
Forced to serve in the most dangerous combat roles
Not allowed to serve in combat roles until late in the war
Put into concentration camps within the United States
Not allowed to serve in the military at all

6. Question #5
The War Production Board, as its name suggests, was an organization in the federal government whose task it was to coordinate resources and production for the war effort. One of the measures that the War Production board supported was:
Rationing of important war materials and consumer goods
Discouraging Americans from producing their own food
Communal farming based on the Soviet model
Developing the atomic bomb

7. Question #6
President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 allowed the American government to displace and intern Japanese immigrants and American citizens of Japanese descent. Roosevelt’s primary reason for doing this was to:
Hold these people as hostages to discourage Japanese imperial aggression
Prevent these people from spying on the American west coast
Employ these people as laborers in war industries
Recruit these people as soldiers into the United States military

8. Question #7
The United States government used many different strategies to bring the country to full mobilization, and bring all of the country’s resources into supporting the war effort. On the next slide, please choose all that are strategies that the United States government used to mobilize.

9. Question #8 Rationing of consumer goods Scrapping and waste collection
Drafting adult males
Internment of civilians such as the Japanese
Repealing the 18th amendment and prohibition
Issuing war bonds