1930s pop-culture & WW2

New method of listening to music

Vinyl Records

What wasn’t a new things radios began to broadcast

Advertisements

What new type of movie allowed americans to escape depression

Musicals

Which superhero was published in 1938 to entertain new readers

Superman

John Steinbecks famous novel about the depression

The grapes of wrath

What organisation hired artists to put on free shows in schools during depression

Work Progress Administration

What disney character appeared in a cartoon for the first time in the 1930s

Mickey Mouse

What comedy duo became popular

Laurel and Hardy

Name of the system in 1939 by which USA sold weapons to the british as long as they collected them

Cash and carry policy

Name of the system which U.S.A. lent britain $7000milliom worth if weapons which they were to pay back

Lend-Lease act

In what month did bombing on pearl harbor happen

December 1941

How many million did number of women working increase during war

7 million

Number of women working in shipbuilding increased from 36 to what in 1942

200,000

% of factory managers said they preferred to employ women

60%

Name of organisation that increased membership to over ½ million after war because african americans should be treated better

NAACP

Name of organisations set up by roosevelt to reduce racial discrimination in workplaces

Fair Employement Practices Committee

How many african americans fought in the second world war

1 million

In which country did african americans soldiers experience de-segregated society during the war

britain

how many african americans worked in the factories during war

2 million

How many women joined up to the armed forces

200,000

organisation that set up to help convert practice industries to munitions factories

war production board

what two things did car companies produce

tanks and fighter planes

by 1944 unemployment had fallen from 9.5 million in 1939 to under how many million

1 million

proportion of the worlds weapons was the U.S.A. producing by 1944

a half

how many new businesses started up during WW2

½ million

which company packaged rations for the american soldiers

wringleys

which company set up factories all over europe so soldiers could still get their product

coca cola

what was the name of the money which workers lent to the government to help pay for the war

war bonds

how many workers moved from the rural south to the industrial north to get jobs during war

4 million