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America Goes to War: The Home Front
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition- Episode 2
1. According to the opening speech, we wanted soldiers of the
highest
________________ efficiency.
2. The problem is to have the right ________________ of the
right people in the
right places, at the right time.
3. Its often very difficult to get things done quickly in what
type of government?
________________________________
4. What event caused young men to storm the recruiting
offices?
_____________________________________
5. Draftees had to learn to swim through ________________.6. In
the end, more than ______________ million civilians were taught to
function
as sailors, marines, and flyers.
7. Movie magazines celebrated stars who joined what?
_______________________
8. Joe Louis was assigned to the ______________________.
9. During all of the photographs of uniformed men with their
girlfriends, wives, and
children right before leaving on the train for war, the song
that is playing states
There will never be another______________.
10. Millions of civilians volunteered to roll ________________,
learn First Aid, and
to donate blood.
11. More than half a million civilians joined the
________________ Warning Service
to scan the skies for enemy aircraft.
12. Civil Defense workers were trained to recognize
_________________ by their
silhouettes.
13. What was the color of the air raid siren that signaled a
return to normal life?
_____________
14. FDR, in his speech to the troops, said that Somebody has to
do this
______________.
15. What is the cartoon characters name in the service man
video? ______________
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16. At the end of the service man cartoon, the folks at home
sing Were working like
____________ in the ol home town.
17. Germany and Japan were surprised by how ______________
America switched
from a peace time to a war time economy.
18. American mass production is delivering the
______________.
19. What product used to be made on the same assembly lines as
machine guns?
____________
20. During the war, _____________ million people left their home
towns to find
work in the war industries.
21. Private homes were turned in to rooming houses, vacant
commercial buildings
and old ____________________ served as dormitories.
22. Prefabricated buildings could be assemblies quickly by what
kind of worker?
________________________
23. How many Brockmillers were there to feed?
__________________________
24. By figuring out how to put ships together fast, ___________
Kaiser became a
star!
25. Kaiser did not follow the traditional building pattern for
ships, but instead had
large parts built _________________________.
26. We are getting ahead of our enemies in the battle of
_____________________.
27. Kaisers techniques cut the build time for ships from one
year to ____________
days.
28. Who paid the bill for all of these products like ships and
ammo?
______________________________
29. One million people worked for the government at the
beginning of WWII and it
grew to _______________ million working for it by the end of the
war.
30. In 1943, the news reels showed an event called the worlds
biggest
__________________.
31. ________________ billion bullets were produced during the
war by Americans.
32. Military Industrial _______________
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KEY
1. Fighting
2. Numbers
3. Democracy4. Pearl Harbor
5. Fire
6. 157. The armed services
8. Calvary
9. You
10. Bandages11. Air
12. Planes
13. Blue
14. Work15. Snafu
16. Hell17. Quickly, Fast
18. Goods
19. Typewriters20. 20
21. Warehouses
22. Unskilled
23. 2924. Henry
25. Elsewhere
26. Production27. 56
28. The Government
29. 430. Parade
31. 40
32. Complex
