World War II/Postwar Quiz

The Japanese attacked the US here in part b/c of the oil sanctions the US had placed on them, leading to US entry into WWII

• Pearl Harbor
• Argonne-Forest
• Auschwitz
• Hiroshima

Hitler's Final Solution

• Luftwaffe
• The Holocaust
• Blitzkrieg
• Anschluss

Executive Order 9066 removed the Japanese from the U.S. West Coast because

• Americans feared for the safety of the Japanese Americans
• Americans feared they would help Japan
• they refused to sign loyalty oaths
• they stole information from the U.S. government

This top secret project created "Little Boy" & "Fat Man," the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan

• Manhattan Project
• Project X
• Weapon X
• Operation Avalanche

Who are these WWII bomber escorts?

• Flying Tigers
• Tuskegee Airmen
• Blue Angels
• Black Panthers

These volunteer pilots fought the Japanese in China

• Black Hawks
• Red Barons
• Flying Tigers
• Flying Graysons

They used their language as code

• Seminole
• Comanche
• Cherokee
• Navajo

Turning point in the war in the Pacific

• Coral Sea
• Midway
• Guadalcanal
• Okinawa

Where were thousands of American POW's forced to march through the jungle?

• Bataan
• Leyte Gulf
• Iwo Jima
• Honshu

160,000 Allied troops invaded this part of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944

• Paris
• Lyon
• Caen
• Normandy