Texas and a World at War

Match each item with its description.

• James Earl Rudder

• one of five Mexican Americans from Texas to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II

• Leonard Roy Harmon

• Texan naval officer who was the most decorated sailor in the war

• Samuel Dealey

• African American Texan who saved the life of a fellow sailor and had a ship named for him

• Silvestre Herrera

• Texan admiral who led the U.S. Pacific Fleet

• Chester W. Nimitz

• Texan who led a force of rangers on D-Day

How did Oveta Culp Hobby contribute to the war effort?

• She was the first female fighter pilot to serve in combat for the U.S. military.

• She organized and commanded the Women’s Army Corps (WAC).

• She founded the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).

• She earned a Navy Cross for her heroism in battle.

What form of discrimination that African American soldiers experienced during World War II ended late in the war?

• being assigned to noncombat roles

• serving in segregated units

• not being sent to duty overseas

• lower pay than white soldiers

Why did the U.S. Army make Texas its main training ground during World War II?

• Texas’s location far from the coasts made it unlikely to be attacked.

• Texas’s poor weather would help conceal military activities there.

• Texas had a favorable climate and open spaces, making it well suited for the task.

• Texas had many unemployed men to train for combat. 

Which of the following events led to the United States’s entry into World War II?

• Germany’s attack on France

• Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor

• Japan’s conquest of Indonesia

• the formation of the Axis

Why were some soldiers from the Thirty-sixth Division called the “Lost Battalion”?

• They became lost in France after the United States invaded that country.

• They were captured by the Japanese, who refused to say where they were.

• They were all lost at sea when the Japanese sank their ships.

• They lost an important battle in the fighting in Italy