How Did World War II Contribute to Changing Understandings of Race

question 74

Multiple Choice

How did World War II contribute to changing understandings of race in the U.S.?

• A) Nazi atrocities, committed in the name of racial purification, shocked the conscience of many Americans, who began to question their own prejudices.
• B) American interest in eugenics, the belief that a society should control its population by controlling who could reproduce, increased.
• C) Americans began to worry about the financial cost of maintaining "separate but equal" facilities for whites and non-whites because World War II has been so expensive to fight.
• D) Americans began to see women as competent employees because of their performance in factories during World War II.