4th Grade Alabama History Week 21

The ______________________ led American Fleets into Tokyo Bay after the Japanese surrendered.

• USS Missouri

• Tuskeegee Airmen

• USS Alabama

During WWII, ______________________ was the home of an Army guided-missile School

• Mobile

• Redstone Arsenal

• Montgomery

_______________________ suffered severe burns when he threw a bomb out of an airplane, saving the crew.

• Howard Gilmore

• Crommelin Brothers

• Henry Erwin

The USS Alabama is anchored in

• Mobile

• Gulf Shores

• Huntsville

A movie was made about the _______________________ in 1995

• USS Alabama

• USS Missouri

• Tuskeegee Airmen

The Axis Powers were made up of

• Germany

• Italy

• Japan

• all of the above

During WWII, more than 89,000 new people moved to

• Huntsville

• Mobile

• Birmingham

The government chose Alabama to build military bases because

• It is close to Florida and has warm weather.

• it has rolling hills and has a good view

• there was lots of flat land available and winters were mild.

The Japanese signed their final terms of surrender

• in France on July 4, 1945

• in Germany on May 28, 1945

• on September 2, 1945 on the USS Missouri

The Tuskeegee Airmen

• was named after a famous book

• was the name of a 1995 movie and a group of African American pilots who flew for the U.S. Army Air Force

• were Spanish airmen who flew for the U.S. Air Force