Living Conditions
Japanese POW camps were generally in barracks and prisoners were given _____ to sleep on
Mats
1954 study found that men who survived the war died at what rate compared to the rest of the population A.twice
B.3 times
C.4times
C. 4 times
The terms of the Geneva Convention were________ in Japanese POW camps.
A)Loved
B)Ignored
C)Encouraged
D)Great Hymns
B
An average person's calorie intake is 2,000 a day, what was a POW’s?
600
True or false, 85% of pacific POWs were diagnosed with PTSD
True
Question:
What encircled the POW Camps?
A)Guards
B)barbed wire fence
C)wood
D)all of the above
D
What did the British POWs call the ships that transported them to the camps?
Hell ships, crammed into cargo holds like cattle, where many suffered from starvation, malnutrition, asphyxiation and disease.
Pacific POWs comitted suicide at what rate when compared to the rest of the population?
A. 30%
B. 15%
C. 25%
D. 50%
A. 30
The Burma-Thailand railway was given what nickname?
A)Rocky Mountaineer,
B) Glacier Express,
C)The death railway
D) West Highland Line.
C) The death railway
What was the mortality rate in Japanese POW camps?
17%
8%
27%
None of the above
27%, 7 times of those held in POW camps by the Germans and Italians.
True or false
⅓ of Pacific POWs were categorized and 50 to 100 percent disabled
true
There were more than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese POW camps. Of these 1 of ___ died.
A)52
B)97
C)1
D)3
D)3
What were the three types of camps?
branch, detached and dispatched camps. The detached camp was a branch camp of a smaller size, typically a mine or factory camp.
Dispatched/detached camp food, housing, and clothing were provided by the companies and the IJA (Imperial Japanese Army)
What percent of pows were diagnosed with alcoholism as a result of their experiences?
25%
Prisoners were often _____
A)Put to work from dawn till dusk
B)Put to bed
C)sang to
D)taught how to tie their shoes
A) Put to work from dawn till dusk