Heroic Feats
What group of people worked in wartime industries for the first time in WW2?
Women
What happened on December 7th 1941?
Pearl Harbor
Dwight Eisenhower was appalled at the conditions he found in the German camps that were part of what program that killed millions of Jews?
Holocaust
The United States enacted laws to prevent workplace discrimination of women and whom?
African Americans
He led the Allied forces in Europe?
Eisenhower
WHat planet is the only one in our Solar System to rotate clockwise?
A Mercury
B Venus
C Earth
D Mars
B
What type of garden was planted by Americans to help feed American soldiers?
Victory
Executive Order 9066 dealt with what group of people?
A. Japanese Americans B. African Americans C. European Jews
A
Uncle Sam was used in posters to get people to enlist in what?
The US army
What operation occured in Normandy ? Operation _____________?
Overlord
The Tuskegee ____________ were the first African American fighter pilots?
Airmen
WHat is James Bond Code Name
007
Which group of Native Americans were the code talkers?
Navajo
Executive Order 9066 led to problems with what?
A. freedom of press B. freedom of religion C. due process
C
Which one of these did Hitler's Germany not do?
A Target Jews with Holocaust
B Annex Austria
C Placed an embargo on Japan
D Invaded Poland
C
What country was fighting with Germany in Eastern Europe?
Soviet Union
Which two technologies helped located enemy ships and planes?
Radar and Sonar
WHat is the largest human organ
Skin
Germans led their last counter assault in the Battle of the ___________?
Bulge
Which battle in the Pacific was key to the American victory over the Japanese because it destroyed a lot of the Japanese aircraft carriers?
Battle of Midway
What state was the Atom?ic bomb developed in?
New Mexico
Avoiding heavily defended islands and seizing less defended ones was called island _____________?
Hopping
He was the lead admiral in the Pacific against the Japanese
Chester Nimitz
A flamboyance is what group of animals
A Frogs
B Flamingos
C Monkeys
D Peacocks
B
Which person Destroyed multiple enemy machine-gun nests • Led a battalion advance through enemy territory • Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for exceptional leadership and bravery
Vernon Baker
What led in part to attack the US at Pearl Harbor?
A. Germany launches U-boat attacks B. China invades Japan C. Japan joins Allied powers D. United States places an embargo on Japan
D
Which policy was put in place to ensure sufficient resources for the troops
Rationing
Name the two cities in Japan that were atomic bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Japanese invasion of The Phillipines led to what death march?
Bataan
What candy started with the name M and M Fruit Chews
Starburst