Decoding
The _______ code saved lives and shortened the war.
- Secret - Navajo
- Athabaskan - Forbidden
The Navajo Code
This group of people made a greater per capita contribution to the war than any other group
- Germans - Native Americans
- African Americans - The Japanese
Native Americans
Many Native American children attended these under government or church operation in the early 19th century.
- Missionary trips - Colleges
- Military schools - Boarding schools
Boarding schools
This many American Indian men and women went to work in the wartime defense industry
- 450 - 65,000
- 100,000 - 1,500
65,000
The __________ are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States
- Chippewa - Elites
- Navajo - Supers
Navajo
The vital members of the military team that defeated the Japanese were called this
- Code breakers - Native heros
- The forbidden speakers - Code talkers
The Code Talkers
After Pearl Harbor, many Native Americans either enlisted in the war or ________.
- Worked as nurses - Went to work at home
- Stayed home with kids - Worked in war plants
Natives worked in war plants
Boarding schools _______ these children for talking in their native tongue.
- Killed - Praised
- Accepted - Punished
Punished
More than ___ Oglala Sioux families were given 10 days’ notice to leave their homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation so that the land could become a bombing range.
- 250 - 15
- 1,000 - 50
250
Many Native Americans voluntarily joined the war effort after _______.
- Pearl Harbor - The Holocaust
- Battle of Little Bighorn - WWI
Pearl Harbor
The original code talkers were made up of 29 men from the Navajo Nation, though they numbered over ____ by the war’s end.
- 400 - 750
- 15 - 1000
Over 400
A majority of the Native Americans in the service _____?
- Were nurses - Enlisted voluntarily
- Were drafted - Were paid to enlist
Enlisted voluntarily
At the boarding schools they attended the use of the Navajo code/language had been ______
- Well known by everyone - Forbidden
- Spoken by everyone - Accepted
Forbidden
How many of the 350,000 American Indians enlisted in the armed forces?
- 250,000 - 45,000
- 500 - 25,000
45,000
Native women who served in the armed forces as members of the _____
- WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)
- Army Nurse Corps - WACS (Women Army Corps) - ALL OF ABOVE
- All of the above
The Native Americans were forced to make a _______ based on their native language
- recipe - song
- code - new language
A code
The first ____ volunteers joined without knowing what the "special service" was.
- 5 - 84
- 29 - 156
29
Indian boarding schools were founded to ____________
- Train for military - Teach Navajo code
- Help learn their culture - Eliminate Native culture
Eliminate Native culture
Some tribes had ____ of tribes enlist.
- 40% - 30%
-15% - 70%
70%
In the Women's Army Corps, hundreds of _______ women served
- African American - Single
- Native American - Poor
Native American
The Navajo Code was broken ______
- in 2013 - During the war
- Never - After the war ended
The Navajo Code was never broken
The population by 1940 had risen to around 350,000 Native Americans. Of that, ______ of them saw military service during WWII.
- 44,000 - Just under 10,000
- 500 - 22,000
44,000
Federal government established ________ two Indian reservations in Arizona
- Concentration camps - Military bases
- Universities - Job sites
Concentration camps
In New York, the ____ Iroquois Nations declared war on the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) in 1942
- 6 - 10
- 26 - 3
6 Iroquois Nations
During WW2 a certain group of Navajos were recruited by the U.S. marines for?
- Special Service - Doing laundry
- Treating burn victims - Chefs
Special Service