Name two famous Tuskegee pilots that received their wings in 1942 and were recognized by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Benjamin Davis Jr & Charles Honored
What is
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Franklin D Roosevelt
What incident started the violence that led up to the Zoot Suit riots?
A 22 year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. "Whites attributed the murder to the rise of Mexican American crime rising.
What is suicide
How did the U.S. contribute economically to the war effort during WWII?
By
Creating agencies to help start the flow of labor and civilian consumption.
What is the name of the Japanese pilots who flew planes of active loaded bombs into other nations for detonation?
What is
Kamikazos
Or Suicide attackers
Britain and France
Holocaust
100 billion
Describe the term rationing
What is
Limiting one's purchasing or buying power.
What kind of attack did Japan plan on the United States? (Japanese or English term will be accepted).
Kamikaze or Suicide attack. Japanese pilots attacked Pearl Harbor and later flew their planes into ships and builds.
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
What is the Tuskegee Institute and who was it's founder?
The Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University was a vocational college founded by Booker T Washington.
What was the day called that the Allied Powers planned to liberate France?
Doom's Day
Why didn't the GI Bill benefit people of African Descent?
Southern democrats used tactics and Jim crow laws.
What is
a week
Who did FDR award the medal of Honor to for the bombing raid on Tokyo Japan.
Who is
Colonel James Doolittle.
How did Latina women contribute to the war effort during WWII.
By joining the WAC and the Navy's WAVES
By using their labor to make bombs and guns.
Lend-Lease Act
1940
What year America dropped the atomic (atom) bomb on Japan?
What is
1945
Describe the Zoot Suit
A baggy suit with baggy pants and a metal chain hanging from the belt loop.