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100
What did roger tittup want to be?
A hero
100
When were 140 liberty ships produced each month?
By early 1943
100
What year was the attack on pearl harbor?
1941
100
Unemployment went as low as what in 1944?
1.2%
100
How many Japanese Americans joined the war?
33,000
200
How long was basic training at the military bases for the volunteers?
8 weeks
200
How did Hitler die?
Shot himself
200
In the Philippines, how many American and Filipino troops battled the Japanese for control?
80,000
200
By 1945, more than how many committees had been established by American communities to improve race relations?
400
200
Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for what day?
D-Day
300
What German refugee wrote a letter warning President Roosevelt that the Germans could construct a weapon of mass destruction?
Albert Einstein
300
How did Franklin Roosevelt die?
Stroke
300
What was the Battle of Midway?
A turning point and halfway point in the pacific war
300
Who was James Farmer?
Civil rights leader
300
How many people died as a result of injuries and radiation poisoning caused by the atomic blasts in hiroshima?
200,000
400
What was the name of the project that set out to build an atomic bomb as soon as possible?
Manhattan Project
400
Who became the 33rd president?
Harry S. Truman
400
How many kamikaze planes embarked on suicide missions in the Philippines?
424
400
What did the GI Bill of rights do?
Provided education and training for the vetrans
400
What was (CORE) and what did they do?
Congress of Racial equality - confront urban segregation in the north
500
Mexican Americans suffered what amount of Los Angeles causalities during the war?
1/5
500
When did Dwight Eisenhower give the go ahead for D-Day?
June 6th, 1944
500
What kind of bomber bombed hiroshima?
B-29 bomber named Enola Gay
500
How did the riots in Los Angeles begin?
when 11 sailors in Los Angeles reported that they had been attacked by zoot-suit-wearing Mexican Americans.
500
On July 25, 1943, King Victor Emmanuel III summoned who?
II Duce (Italian for “the leader”)
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