WWI & WWII Facts
Which attack brought the United States into World War II?
What is Pearl Harbor?
The New Deal was created to help Americans recover from this economic crisis.
What is the Great Depression?
Hanford was built in Washington to help create this weapon.
What is the atomic bomb?
This airplane company grew rapidly during WWI & WWII.
What is Boeing?
Japanese Americans living in Washington were forced to relocate to these types of facilities during World War II.
What are incarceration camps? (or internment camps)
What event started World War I in 1914?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What year did the stock market crash that helped start the Great Depression?
What is 1929?
Hanford produced this material used in atomic bombs.
What is plutonium?
Seattle, Tacoma, and Bremerton became important centers for building these.
What are ships?
Many Japanese American families from Washington lost these when they were incarcerated.
What are homes, farms, businesses, or property?
World War I was often called "The War to End All _____."
What are wars?
President _____ created the New Deal to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
During World War II, this program allowed Mexican laborers to temporarily work in the United States to address agricultural worker shortages.
What is the Bracero Program?
Boeing, Hanford, and shipyards all contributed to Washington's wartime ________.
What is economy?
Executive Order _____ authorized the removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
What is 9066?
Which world war lasted longer for the United States: WWI or WWII?
What is World War II?
How did the Grand Coulee Dam help Washington during the New Deal?
It provided jobs, electricity, and irrigation for farms.
The Hanford Site was part of this secret U.S. government project during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
WWI & WWII transformed Washington from a largely agricultural state into a more ________ state.
What is industrialized?
This term describes judging an entire group of people based on fear rather than evidence.
What is prejudice?
Name the two cities where atomic bombs were dropped in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Why was the Hanford Site built in eastern Washington instead of a large city like Seattle? (2 reasons)
What is because it was isolated, had access to the Columbia River for cooling, and had abundant electricity from Grand Coulee Dam,?
Name two ways WWII changed Washington's economy.
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This famous military unit was made up mostly of Japanese American soldiers and became one of the most decorated units in U.S. history.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?