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World War II
NM in the Pacific War
NM Homefront
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Manhattan Project
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One began World war II as president and the other was president when it ended.

Who were FDR and Truman

100
country in which the march took place
What is the "Philippines"?
100

Location of the scientific development of the Atomic Bomb

Where was Los Alamos NM

100
international agreement on humane treatment of prisoners of war
What are the "Geneva Conventions"?
100
scientist whose 1939 letter prompted FDR to begin the Manhattan Project
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

Navajo speaking radio operators essential to many battle in the pacific during world war II

Who were Navajo Code Talkers 

200
Albuquerque journalist who was killed while reporting on the soldiers' lives who were serving in the Pacific
Who is "Ernie Pyle"?
200
city, in addition to Lordsburg, 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

The U.S. bombed this city on August 6th 1945

Where is Hiroshima

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

Location of the first Atomic bomb explosion.

Where was the trinity site, jouranda de Muerto, NM

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 military unit trapped on the Bataan peninsula

200th Coast Artillery/515th Coast Artillery

400

This executive order began the interment of Japanese Americans.

What was Executive Order 9066 

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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 -- except for Calvin Graef
What are "hell ships"?
500

This was the term given to the atomic bomb tested in NM

The Gadget.

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"?