Question

When the United States entered world war ll , it affected the lives of Americans in many ways. People were asked to __ resources , such as food, oil, and gas. The government also encouraged people to purchase __ to help the country financially during the war. More and more __ started working in all industries during the war.
1 conserve, spend, contribute
2 automatic weapons, war shares, war bonds
3 women, men, children

Answer 1

The correct answer is conserve, war bonds, and women.

When the United States entered world war ll, it affected the lives of Americans in many ways. People were asked to conserve resources, such as food, oil, and gas. The government also encouraged people to purchase war bonds to help the country financially during the war. More and more women started working in all industries during the war.  

In January 1942, Theodore Roosevelt created the War Production Board to coordinate the mobilization, and in 1943 he created the Office of War Mobilization to supervise the defense agencies. A system was generated to supply defense plants with raw materials such the synthetic rubber. For those reasons, Roosevelt asked people to conserve resources, to invest in war bonds to finance the war. In that moment, Women got Jobs to support its families because their husbands or sons were in the war. The Office of Price Administration under Roosevelt supervision controlled inflation.