Name: Hour: Chapter 14 Section 1: Mobilizing for War 1a. Why didn’t FDR want to fight the war on two fronts? 1b. What were the two fronts the U.S. was fighting on? 2. Draw a picture of the two branches of the U.S. military that, according to FDR, needed to be built up in order for the Allies to be victorious. 3. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill believed that victory in modern war was dependent on a nation’s . 4. Compare the U.S.’s industrial output to that of Germany and Japan. 5. What was one of the most important factors that helped the Allies win a war against countries with a superior military, like Germany? FDR said, “I never wanted to fight this war on two fronts.”
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Name: Hour: Chapter 14 Section 1: Mobilizing for War
1a. Why didn’t FDR want to fight the war on two fronts?
1b. What were the two fronts the U.S. was fighting on?
2. Draw a picture of the two branches of the U.S. military that, according to FDR, needed to be built up in order for the Allies to be victorious.
3. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill believed that victory in modern war was dependent on a nation’s .
4. Compare the U.S.’s industrial output to that of Germany and Japan.
5. What was one of the most important factors that helped the Allies win a war against countries with a superior military, like Germany?
6. Why did FDR mobilize the economy before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
7. Henry Ford turned factories into ones that supplied war supplies. 8. Draw pictures of at least 5 specific products that were built in U.S. factories to aid the war effort.
FDR said, “I never wanted to fight this war on two fronts.”
Mass production was CRITICAL in modern warfare, because the country that could move troops and supplies most quickly usually won the battle.
9. What military necessity led to the production of Liberty ships?
10. How did Henry Kaisers’ Liberty Ships aid the war effort?
11. What was the Selective Service & Training Act?
12. Draw a detailed picture showing how U.S. troops were trained.
13. Why did some African Americans in the U.S. NOT support the war?
14. What does it mean to have a segregated Army, or as the African American student said, “to have the Army Jim Crow us”?
15. What does it mean to be “disenfranchised”?Examine the graph “U.S. Armed Forces, 1939-1946” on page 490.
Converting factories to war production was only part of the mobilization process. To fight and win the war, the U.S. also needed to build up its armed forces.
One African American student stated, “The Army Jim Crows us… Employers and labor unions shut us out. Lynchings continue. We are disenfranchised…and spat upon. What more could
Hitler do to us than that?”
16a. In what year did the Army experience the most rapid growth? 16b. Why do you think this year showed such rapid growth?
17. What was the Double V campaign?
18. Thinking ahead: the Double V campaign was the beginning to what significant movement in American history in the 1950s and 1960s?
19. What role did Japanese American soldiers play in WWII?
20. What roles did Native American soldiers play in WWII? (Look on the top of page 514 for additional help).
21. What roles did women play in WWII? (Some are military roles that, although they do not involve direct fighting, could still be very dangerous as the women could be attacked during the fighting).
22. Review of the section: Complete this graphic organizer with challenges facing the United States as it mobilized for war (in other words, what things did the U.S. need to
do in order to prepare for war?)
Challenges to Mobilization
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