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Icon associated with female defense workers during World War II.
Who was Rosie the Riveter
Japan attacking a military base here was the immediate cause for United States entrance into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Name given to American Indians who used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield.
What are Code Talkers?
The largest continent.
What is Asia?
A city in this state is known as the Avocado Capital of the World and hosts an annual Avocado Festival.
What is California?
Month, day, year Pearl Harbor was attacked
What is December 7, 1941?
100,000 women served in this organization in a wide variety of capacities, ranging from performing essential clerical duties to serving as instructors for male pilots-in-training
What is the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES)?
Known as “buffalo soldiers,” they distinguished themselves on the battlefield, disproving skeptics and earning an honored chapter in the history of World War II.
What was the 92nd infantry?
The largest canyon.
What is the Grand Canyon (in Arizona)?
The armadillo is the official state mammal
What is Texas?
One hundred and fifty thousand women served in this organization during the war. Their noncombat jobs ranged from switchboard operators to mechanics to bakers and beyond.
What is the Women's Army Corps (WAC)?
Roosevelt asked this body of people to declare war against Japan.
What is Congress?
Members of this group became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft, and trained other pilots
What were the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)?
These two countries share the longest border in the world. In total, it spans over 1,538 miles!
What is the United States and Canada?
This state is the world’s popcorn capital.
What is Indiana?
During the Great Depression, Americans were in favor of this policy, believing that problems at home could only be exacerbated by engagement in international affairs.
What is isolationism?
In 1944, a Japanese American convicted of evading internment, brought his case to the Supreme Court.
Who is Fred Korematsu?
The most decorated group in U.S. military history; composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry
What is the 442nd Infantry Regiment?
The hottest desert in the world is the Sahara desert, located on this continent.
What is Africa?
98% of the world’s crayfish come from this state.
What is Louisianna?
Established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066
What are internment camps?
This symbolized fighting for victory at home and abroad.
What is the Double V Campaign?
Truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944
What was the Red Ball Express?
The largest active volcano in the world is located here.
What is Hawaii?
The only original colony not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Pennsylvania?