Island Hopping
Japanese Internment
American Popular Culture
Groups Who Contributed
Final Jeopardy
100

This battle had the highest number of casualties in the Pacific.

What is Okinawa?

100

This allowed the United States to declare western states as a military zone and exclude anyone.

What is Executive Order 9066?

100

This boxer made over $100,000 per fight.

Who is Joe Louis?

100

This fictional character empowered women to work during WWII.

Who is Rosie the Riveter?

200

This battle was the first major offense against the Japanese.

What is Guadalcanal?

200

Japanese Americans were often housed in this type of building at internment camps.

What are horse stables?

200

This baseball player was the first African American to play in the major leagues.

Who is Jackie Robinson?

200

These African American pilots were also known as "Red Tails."

Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?

300

This attack by the Japanese brought the United States into WWII.

What is Pearl Harbor?

300

This proportion of people in internment camps were United States citizens.

What is 2/3?

300

These were two very popular styles of music in the 1940s and 50s.

What are jazz and rhythm and blues?

300

The US military used members of this Native American nation to send indecipherable messages.

Who are the Navajo?

400

This battle was the turning point for the Island Hopping strategy in June 1942.

What is Midway?

400

This was one of the most well known Japanese internment camps.

What is Manzanar?

400

What style of movies were dark and gritty, and featured antiheroes as the main characters.

What is "film noir"?

400

The most decorated regiment in US military history was made up of these second generation Americans.

What is Nisei?

500

This battle is remembered by the iconic photo of US Marines raising the American flag.

What is Iwo Jima?

500

This word means second generation Japanese Americans.

What is Nisei?

500

This is the name given to this era of comic books?

What is the "Golden Age"?

500

This group's contributions to WWII were top secret until 1968.

Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?

500

The first national immigration law in the US banned this group with an "Exclusion Act" in 1882.

Who are the Chinese?