21H.102: The Emergence of Modern America
Study Questions for Week of Oct. 24

Readings:
WWII primary sources on the course website; Chapter 25 of American People

Questions:
1. What was the Lend-Lease Act? How did it affect U.S. neutrality?

2. How did the WPB, the OPA, and the NWLB help American industry move into a wartime production mode?

3. What was Executive Order 9066? How did it affect Japanese-Americans?

4. What were zoot suit riots?

5. Who was Rosie the Riveter?

6. What was the Economic Bill of Rights?

7. What was the War Refugee Board? What did it do?

8. Why have some historians called WWI a “good war”?