Texas in WW2

In the 1930s, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed treaties agreeing to cooperate with each other and forming a pact that became known as the _____.

• Allies

• Central Powers

• Axis Powers

• Renegade Powers

World War II began when Germany invaded _____, and Britain and France declared war on Germany.

• Austria

• China

• Poland

• Soviet Union

The United States was pulled into World War II on _____, when Japanese planes attacked U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

• November 11, 1918

• December 7, 1941

• June 6, 1944

• August 6, 1945

The army's Thirty-Sixth Division was nicknamed the "Texas Division" because its 16,000 soldiers were originally members of the _____.

• Texas Rangers

• Texas National Guard

• Garrison at Fort Hood

• Police Departments

During World War II, Randolph Field at _____ became known as the "West Point of the Air" since it was the most important school in the nation for training pilots.

• Dallas

• Houston

• Hitchcock

• San Antonio

In 1941, the army asked Oveta Culp Hobby to organize a corps of nearly 200,000 women to serve in noncombat roles in the military called the _____.

• Women's Air force Service Pilots(WASPs)

• Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVS)

• Women's Army Corps (WAC)

• Women's Auxiliary Air Corps (WAAC)

Denison, Texas, native _____ was commanding general of all Allied forces in Europe.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Chester W. Nimitz

• Leonard Roy Harmon

• Tom Connally

The most highly decorated American in World War II was _____, from rural Hunt County.

• James Earl Rudder

• Samuel Dealey

• Audie Murphy

• Doris " Dorie" Miller

Members of the Texas Division and other Allied forces who were captured by the Japanese and sent to a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Burma, became known as the "_____."

• Rudder's Rangers

• Easy Company

• Missing Division

• Lost Battalion

African American and Tejano soldiers faced discrimination even though they, like white soldiers, were being asked to risk their lives for their country. What was one result of this experience?

• It made them more determined to secure equal rights after the war.

• They asked to serve only in segregated units.

• They refused to be drafted.

• A series of riots broke out at a Houston military base.