WWII Big Picture
NM in the Pacific War
NM Homefront
Camps
Manhattan Project
100

The date that will live in infamy.

What is "Dec. 7, 1941"?

100

country in which the forced march took place

What is the "Philippines"?

100

term for NM women who lost a child in the war and displayed such in their windows.

What are "Gold Star Mothers"?

100
international agreement on humane treatment of prisoners of war
What are the "Geneva Conventions"?
100

Scientist whose 1939 letter prompted FDR to begin development of nuclear weapons.

Who is "Albert Einstein"?

200
The name for the U.S. strategy to defeat Japan; it required a large number of aircraft and ships.
What is "island-hopping"?
200
approximate distance (in miles) that captured Americans and Filipinos were forced to march without adequate food or water to reach the POW camps in the interior of Luzon island
What is "65 miles"?
200
Albuquerque journalist who was killed while reporting on the soldiers' lives who were serving in the Pacific
Who is "Ernie Pyle"?
200

This city, in addition to Lordsburg, is where an internment camp was located in New Mexico

What is "Santa Fe"?

200
chainsmoking scientific leader of the Manhattan Project
What is "J. Robert Oppenheimer"?
300
This was the U.S. President who succeeded FDR and ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
Who is "Harry Truman"?
300
person who grew up on the Navajo reservation and suggested the idea for using the language as a military code during WWII
Who is "Phillip Johnston"?
300
group dedicated to identifying the whereabouts of and helping out NM POWs in the Philippines during WWII
What is the "Bataan Relief Organization (BRO)"?
300
NM town where German POWs organized a friendly athletic event with local New Mexicans that is a symbol of the good treatment that POWs in the United States found
What is "Fort Stanton"?
300
nuclear material on which the design of "the gadget" and "fat man" were based
What is "plutonium"?
400
The thing that happened on August 15, 1945.
What is "Japanese surrender"?
400
NM Commander who surrendered his division's position on April 9, 1942
Who is "Charles G. Sage"?
400
international labor shortage solution negotiated during WWII
What is the "Bracero Program"?
400
New Deal organization that built many of the facilities that were later used as POW camps in New Mexico
What is the "CCC"?
400
person put in charge of the nationwide development of a nuclear weapon in 1942
Who is "Gen. Leslie Groves"?
500
long-term sources of economic growth that WWII brought to NM because of our state's vast unpopulated expanses and usually clear skies
What are "military bases" or "air force bases"?
500

places where many American POWs were unknowingly killed by their own compatriots while in transport -- except for Calvin Graef

What are "hell ships"?

500
wartime solution to food shortages
What is "rationing" or "victory gardens"?
500

approximate proportion of Japanese-Americans forcibly relocated during WWII that were American citizens

What is "2/3"?

500
length of time (in months) between the successful Trinity test and the surrender of Japan following the use of two atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What is "1 month"?
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