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Defense Workers Get Gas Mask Training, Survivors Living in Camp

Defense Workers Get Gas Mask Training, Survivors Living in Camp

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Interactive Video

Social Studies

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The video covers the training of 12,500 civilian employees at Puget Sound Navy Yard in the use of gas masks and chemical warfare defense. It also discusses the scuttling of the German liner Columbus off the Virginia coast in December 1939 and the subsequent internment of its crew at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. The camp is heavily guarded and costs the Hitler government $18,000 a month.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the primary focus of the training at Puget Sound Navy Yard?

Aircraft maintenance

Firefighting techniques

Naval combat strategies

Use of gas masks and chemical warfare protection

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happened to the German liner Columbus in December 1939?

It was captured by the British Navy

It successfully returned to Germany

It was scuttled off the Virginia coast

It was converted into a museum

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where were the crew members of the Columbus relocated after their ship was scuttled?

Ellis Island, New York

Fort Stanton, New Mexico

Alcatraz Island, California

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was responsible for maintaining discipline at the Fort Stanton camp?

Admiral Nimitz

General Patton

Captain Dennis Skipper

Inspector Lennon

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the monthly cost to the German government for maintaining the camp at Fort Stanton?

$18,000

$30,000

$25,000

$10,000

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