Navajo/Japanese/Chinese/Utah

Who made up the Axis powers?

• Japan, China, and Italy

• Japan, Germany, and Italy

• Germany, Japan, and Russia

• Germany, Japan, and China

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The code talkers were a group of Navajos who served in the United States Marine Corps during which war?

• Civil War
• World War I
• World War II
• Revolutionary War

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The code talkers invented a code that was never broken by the enemy.

• True
• Falst

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Why did the United States military use codes?

• To help put the airplanes in order.
• To help forecast the weather.
• To grade the soldiers on their success in the military.
• To make it difficult for the enemy to know their plans.

How did the Navajo code talkers influence the outcome of the war?

• Caused Germany to surrender

• Turned the tide of the war against Japan.

• Gained respect for Navajo back home

• Reduced causalities.

Why didn't very many people know about the work of the code talkers?

• They all died in the war.
• The code wasn't successful so the military didn't want people to know about it.
• The U.S. military wanted to keep it a secret in case they needed to use the code again.
• No one remembered using the code because it wasn't important.

Where did most Japanese Americans live, and were removed from, during the internment period after Pearl Harbor?

• East Coast

• Hawaii

• West Coast

• Utah

What event threw the United States (and Utah) into World War II?

• Japanese Internment Camps
• Attack on Pearl Harbor 
• Hitler invading Poland
• Nazi's exterminating the Jews 

How did the Utahn's help during World War II?

• It had lots of open space for training pilots 
• It supplied many of the Navajo Code Talkers 
• It had lots of natural resources such as copper 
• All of the above 

True or False?  Japanese Internment Camps were for Japanese soldiers captured after the attack on Pearl Harbor

• True
• False