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AMH 2020 Exam 3 questions with 100% correct answers
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AMH 2020 Exam 3 questions with 100% correct answers
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AMH 2020 Exam 3Women working during WWII - correct answer ✔✔•Women were called to take males places on the
production line. •The War Manpower Commission, a Federal Agency established to increase the
manufacture of war materials, had the task of recruiting women into employment vital to the war effort.
Reason for Baby Boom (not the obvious one) - correct answer ✔✔•Reunion of families after the war.
•Decreasing marriage age.
•Desirability of large families.
•Confidence in economic prosperity.
•Advances in medicine
How Americans accumulated money during WWII - correct answer ✔✔•The Amazing Recovery:
•Economic forecasts of another depression were incorrect.
•People who did not spend during the depression and war were ready to spend now.
•They needed and wanted consumer goods
•They had accumulated money from wartime salaries and investments.
•They bought houses, cars and household appliances
Services Readjustment Act - correct answer ✔✔Also known as the GI Bill, provided veterans of the
Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.
What government cancelled when WWII ended. - correct answer ✔✔•When the war ended, the U.S.
converted to peacetime economy.
•War contracts valued at $35 billion were cancelled.
•Over 3 million were looking for work.
Housing Crisis - correct answer ✔✔•In 1945-46, there was a severe shortage of housing.
•People lived in
, Apartments with relatives, or in some cases cars or coal sheds.
Man famous for building inexpensive housing - correct answer ✔✔•William Levitt and Henry Kaiser
come up with the first Suburbs.
•Efficient, assembly line, mass-produced homes.
•Levitt said his company could build a house in 16 minutes.
•Built communities around cities, for less than $8,000.
•Houses were built on a schedule
Divorce rate after WWII - correct answer ✔✔•Up after the Second World War.
•Men were the traditional breadwinners for the home.
•Woman were expected to care for the family.
•6 million woman went to work during World War II.
•Women paid the bills and made the decisions.
•When their husbands came home they were reluctant to give that role up.
•By 1950, 1 million war marriages had ended in divorce.
Social conformity in business - correct answer ✔✔•This began as a standardization of the type of worker
that big companies wanted.
•Creative thinkers, rebels, or people who thought "outside of the box, were not wanted.
•"The Organization Man" was a study that defined how business designed the "company man".
•Conformity replaced individuality. (Not a good thing.)
•All of this was to achieve the American Dream
Re-established after WWII to keep prices down - correct answer ✔✔•Inflation when up after price
controls were lifted.
•Prices went up 25%.
•Many items were unavailable.
•Prices would rise until they leveled out in 1948
•Congress would eventually re-establish wartime price controls to help.
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