One federal agency capped retail prices and rents and issued the stamped books of red and blue points a family needed before it could buy meat, canned goods, sugar or coffee. Which agency was it?

In February 1942 civilian automobile production stopped and the same plants began turning out tanks, aircraft engines and trucks. Which agency allocated scarce materials and directed that conversion of industry to war output?

Unions had pledged not to strike for the duration, so a federal board was set up to settle wage disputes in war industries and it announced the Little Steel formula in July 1942. Which board was it?

Which wartime body was charged with deciding how the country's limited supply of workers should be divided among the armed forces, war plants and farms, and with steering workers to where they were most needed?

A secret wartime program built laboratories and plants at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Los Alamos under General Leslie Groves to develop an atomic bomb. What was that program called?

With farm workers leaving for the military and for war plants, the United States signed an agreement with Mexico in August 1942 to bring in contract laborers to harvest crops and work on railroads. What was this arrangement called?

Starting in July 1943, employers deducted federal income tax from every paycheck and sent it straight to the Treasury, so wage earners paid as they earned instead of settling one large bill each spring. Which law required this?

A. Philip Randolph threatened to lead tens of thousands of Black Americans in a march on Washington in 1941 unless defense jobs were opened to them. Roosevelt then issued Executive Order 8802. What did that order do?

Federal spending between 1941 and 1945 dwarfed anything in the country's peacetime history, and war orders kept plants running around the clock. What happened to American unemployment across those years?

Sugar, coffee, gasoline, meat and rubber were all scarce, but rather than let prices climb to whatever buyers would pay, the government fixed ceiling prices and issued stamped ration books. What was that policy meant to do?

In July 1942 the National War Labor Board limited general wage increases to about 15 percent above January 1941 levels, the rule known as the Little Steel formula. What was the board trying to accomplish?

About 400,000 coal miners struck in 1943 after wartime prices outran their pay. Congress answered by passing the Smith-Connally Act over Roosevelt's veto. What did that law authorize?

Employed American women rose from about 14 million in 1940 to about 19 million in 1945, reaching roughly 36 percent of the civilian labor force. What best explains that increase?

The Treasury sold Series E bonds for $18.75 that paid $25 after ten years, and by January 1946 more than 85 million Americans had bought war bonds. Besides raising money, what did those sales do for the war economy?

New cars, refrigerators and most other consumer durables simply were not manufactured for civilians after early 1942, and families patched and reused what they already owned. What caused that?

Executive Order 9066 was signed on February 19, 1942. Who signed it, and which department did it empower to designate military areas and exclude people from them?

Roughly how many people of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes on the West Coast under the exclusion orders that followed Executive Order 9066, and what share of them were American citizens?

Which civilian agency, created by Executive Order 9102 in March 1942 and directed first by Milton Eisenhower and then by Dillon Myer, operated the ten camps that held Japanese Americans removed from the West Coast?

Manzanar and Tule Lake were two of the War Relocation Authority camps. In which state were both of them located?

Which officer commanded the Western Defense Command and issued the public proclamations and civilian exclusion orders that removed people of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific coastal states in 1942?

Before the inland camps were finished, families removed from the West Coast were held for weeks or months at hastily converted racetracks and fairgrounds such as Santa Anita and Tanforan. What were those temporary sites called?

Which US Army unit, made up almost entirely of Japanese American soldiers and fighting under the motto 'Go for Broke', became the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in American military history?

What did Congress do in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law?

Executive Order 9066 let the Secretary of War and his commanders prescribe military areas 'from which any or all persons may be excluded', and it names no nationality anywhere in its text. What did the West Coast commanders do with that authority?

In Korematsu v. United States (1944) the Supreme Court divided six to three over Fred Korematsu's conviction for staying in a military area in defiance of an exclusion order. What did the majority hold?

On the same day it decided Korematsu, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously for Mitsuye Endo, a citizen the government itself conceded was loyal. What did the Court hold in Ex parte Endo?

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians reported to Congress in 1983 under the title Personal Justice Denied. What did the commission conclude had produced the incarceration?

In February 1942 the Pittsburgh Courier launched the Double V campaign, after a reader's letter asked whether he should sacrifice to live 'half American'. Which two victories did the campaign demand?

War jobs pulled hundreds of thousands of Black and white Southerners into crowded northern production cities. In Detroit that pressure broke into three days of rioting in June 1943. What was the immediate result?

For several nights in June 1943, US servicemen roamed Los Angeles attacking Mexican American youths who wore zoot suits, beating them and tearing off their clothes. How did the Los Angeles city council respond afterward?