World War II

Executive Order 9066 relocated what ethnic group b/c Americans feared they would help the Axis Powers?

• Japanese
• Germans
• Italians
• Jews

What top-secret military project developed a new weapon & tested it at Los Alamos, NM?

• Manhattan Project
• Fat Man Project
• Operation Gamma
• Operation Gold

What were the Tuskegee Airmen known for?

• escorting bombers over Europe
• bombing Tokyo after Pearl Harbor
• Volunteering to fight in China
• bombing the beaches on D-Day

Where did the Flying Tigers volunteer to fight?

• China
• Great Britain
• North Africa
• Italy

Why did the U.S. military use the Navajo language?

• difficult to decode
• easiest language to learn
• Japanese used it as code so we needed it translated
• Easy to teach to U.S. communication personnel

Why was the Battle of Midway the turning point in the Pacific War?

• Germans never won any battles after it
• U.S. lost its entire fleet
• Japanese never won after it
• U.S. now could launch planes to bomb mainland Japan

What happened to American POW's when they surrendered in the Philippines?

• executed
• Bataan Death March
• they were sent to Chinese death camps
• they were released

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What was the significance of the D-Day invasion?

• opened a 2nd front to the war in Europe
• Allied Forces liberated Italy
• Allied forces were defeated
• Hitler conquered Denmark, Norway, & Belgium

In 1945 American & Soviet troops liberated Nazi concentration camps, which were used to eliminate which of the following groups?

• Jews
• the disabled & POW's
• homosexuals & Gypsies
• All of them

General Dwight D. Eisenhower was responsible for planning what military operation in addition to being Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe?

• Operation Torch
• Operation Overlord
• Operation Avalanche
• Operation Juno