WWII Basics
This surprise attack by Japan brought the United States into World War II in 1941.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This Executive Order allowed the U.S. government to force Japanese Americans into camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The name of the author of They Called Us Enemy.
Who is George Takei?
Washington’s industry grew as it built these for the war effort.
What are ships and planes?
These bombings helped bring an end to this nation’s involvement in WWII.
What is Japan?
This political system, led by dictators like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, values strong central control and extreme nationalism.
What is fascism?
This Seattle hotel stored belongings for families forced into camps.
What is the Panama Hotel?
When the U.S. military demanded proof of loyalty, internees had to fill this controversial form.
What is the loyalty questionnaire?
This Seattle company built thousands of bombers during the war.
What is Boeing?
The two Japanese cities on which atomic bombs were dropped.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
World War 2 lasted from 1939 to ______.
What is 1945?
Before WWII, Seattle's Japantown was the __#__ largest in the U.S.?
What is second largest?
George's mother brought this controversial item to the camps with them.
What is a sewing machine?
This program brought Mexican workers to the U.S. to help fill labor shortages during WWII.
What is the Bracero program?
Supporters argued the bomb saved many of these.
What are American lives?
This country was the first to use an atomic weapon in WWII?
What is the United States?
Most Japanese Americans from this part of Washington were sent to camps.
What is western Washington (Puget Sound region)?
Because George’s parents answered “no” to certain questions, they were sent to this maximum-security camp.
What is Camp Tule Lake?
Shipyards were one of the largest employers in WA for this group of Americans.
Who are African Americans?
The name of the project to build the first Atomic Bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
These two words describe Japanese government and goals in the lead up to and in WWII.
What is imperialist and authoritarian?
Even though many internees were citizens, they were treated as this.
What are suspected enemy aliens?
To avoid deportation, the lawyer filed this type of lawsuit against the U.S. government on the Takei's behalf.
What is habeas corpus?
Boeing did not allow African Americans to have jobs with the company until this year.
What is 1942?
This secret site in Eastern Washington made materials used in the atomic bomb.
What is the Hanford Site?