WWII: Contributions of & Effects on Minority Groups

The Tuskegee Program was seen as a what?

• Great Opportunity
• Equal Training
• Special Experiment
• New School

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black American

• College graduates.

• Military pilots.

• Navy Soldiers.

• Marines.

During World II, the US military was

• Segregated.

• Integrated.

• Only open to white Americans.

• Nonexistent.

Which event propelled the United States into World War II?

• The bombing of Pearl Harbor.

• The bombing of Hiroshima.

• Hitler's invasion of Poland.

• The discovery of German spies in America.

What a nickname was given to the Tuskegee Airmen and other Black pilots in World War II?

• Blue Wings.

• Green Belts.

• X-Wings.

• Red Tail.

What were the Tuskegee Airmen known for?

• Escorting bomber planes.

• Bombing enemy submarines.

• Circling the globe.

• Sneaking into enemy camps.

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

• True
• Falst

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.

How long did it take the Navajo Code Talkers to send a message?

• Seconds

• Minutes

• Hours

Nearly 800 messages were sent by the Code Talkers at Iwo Jima with ___________ mistakes.

• 10

• 8

• 4

• 0