nm history ch 6

Question 1

65 mile ordeal that resulted in the brutal suffering and demise of nearly 900 New Mexicans.
war crime perpetuated by Japanese troops in the Philippines during WWII.

Answer 1

Death March

Question 2

Acclaimed Albuquerque war-time journalist who was killed while reporting on the front-line in the pacific

Answer 2

Ernie Pyle

Question 3

Aggressive nation whose expansion and belligerence drew America into WWII

Answer 3

Japan

Question 4

American physicist who led the team of scientists who worked secretly in los Alamos

Answer 4

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 5

American president who made the decision to use nuclear weapons against japan

Answer 5

Harry S. Truman

Question 6

American strategy for victory in pacific that required large navy and Air Force

Answer 6

Island hopping

Question 7

American territory that japan successfully invaded and captured at the beginning of WWII

Answer 7

Philippines

Question 8

Army engineer who oversaw the American efforts to develop the atomic bomb

Answer 8

General Leslie Groves

Question 9

Beloved Albuquerque writer who published news stories about regular soldiers serving on the front

Answer 9

Ernie Pyle

Question 10

Commander of New Mexican troops who finally surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942

Answer 10

Charles G. Sage

Question 11

Coordinated effort of Mexico and US to increase Mexican immigration into US
Government policy that sought to address the labor shortage in agricultural jobs during WWII

Answer 11

Bracero program

Question 12

Disguised Japanese prisoner transports that were frequently target for US bombers

Answer 12

Hell ships

Question 13

Formal surrender of the empire of japan

Answer 13

August 15, 1945

Question 14

Group formed to seek information about and to send aid to New Mexicans who were imprisoned or missing in the Philippines

Answer 14

Bataan relief organization

Question 15

Group whose children were killed while serving their country in the military during WWII

Answer 15

Gold star mothers

Question 16

International protocols for the humane treatment of wartime prisoners. These were not followed in the Japanese POW camps on Luzon island

Answer 16

Geneva conventions

Question 17

Untested Uranium fueled atomic weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945

Answer 17

Little boy

Question 18

Many former CCC camps at Roswell, lordsburg, and fort Stanton were converted into these during WWII.
Locations where American citizens were unconstitutionally detained because of their ethnicity.

Answer 18

Internment camps

Question 19

Los Angeles engineer who recommended the use of Navajo language for military coding during WWII

Answer 19

Philip Johnston

Question 20

Location which Oppenheimer suggested as the headquarters for scientific work on nuclear weapons

Answer 20

Los Alamos ranch school

Question 21

Location where American and Filipino forces surrendered control of the Philippines

Answer 21

Bataan Peninsula

Question 22

Japanese city that first experienced the horrific destruction of a nuclear weapon

Answer 22

Hiroshima

Question 23

New Mexican military unit that was stationed on Luzon island and participated in the Bataan Death March

Answer 23

515th coast artillery

Question 24

place where the first atomic weapon detonated

Answer 24

Trinity site

Question 25

Plutonium based atomic weapon whose first prototype was detonated in nm

Answer 25

Fat man

Question 26

Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist whose work depicted the everyday life of American soldiers

Answer 26

Bill maudlin

Question 27

Surprise Japanese attack’s that killed over 2000 Americans and prompted US entry into WWII

Answer 27

Pearl Harbor

Question 28

wartime sacrifice that many New Mexicans at home made to support the war effort

Answer 28

rationing

Question 29

TRUE or FALSE: The brave resistance of American troops to the Japanese invasion of the Philippines was an important factor in their treatment during the Bataan Death March.

Answer 29

true

Question 30

TRUE or FALSE: Ironically, most of the men who died during the Bataan Death March were killed by American bombers.

Answer 30

false

Question 31

TRUE or FALSE: Prisoners of war were treated inhumanely on both sides of the Pacific during WWII.

Answer 31

false