WWII: Home Front/Bataan Death March WS

Question 1

How much of the US fleet was destroyed at Pearl Harbor?

Answer 1

half

Question 2

December 7, 1941 was a day that “will live in __”

Answer 2

infamy

Question 3

Did most people know the president could not walk?

Answer 3

no

Question 4

Did homes have TVs in them?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

Within sight of NJ, what did the Germans do?

Answer 5

sink freighters

Question 6

While the president spoke on February 23, 1942, what did people look at?

Answer 6

maps

Question 7

With what did the president move people?

Answer 7

words

Question 8

How many months did it take to convert the auto industry to war production?

Answer 8

9 months

Question 9

What was Detroit dubbed?

Answer 9

Arsenal Democracy

Question 10

A new bomber came off the line every __ minutes

Answer 10

5

Question 11

Between 1940-1944, women in the war related workforce rose by how much? How many women was that? What percentage of the workforce was that?

Answer 11

460%; 19,000,000; 1/3

Question 12

What plane was known as the Flying Fortress?

Answer 12

B17 bombers

Question 13

In one month, how many tanks were made? Planes?

Answer 13

4000; 4500

Question 14

Ships could be assembled in __ days instead of the usual one year

Answer 14

17

Question 15

What types of items were collected?

Answer 15

materials for war

Question 16

What rallied people in hatred of the enemy?

Answer 16

news reels

Question 17

What did Americans think of the Japanese?

Answer 17

cockroaches, monkeys, subhuman

Question 18

What did Executive Order 9066 do?

Answer 18

All Japanese be removed from West Coast of US

Question 19

How did teenage girls change in the 1940s?

Answer 19

grew up quickly, marry younger

Question 20

Who came at the right movement to become a cultural figure?

Answer 20

Frank Sinatra

Question 21

Did letters home tell of the horrors of war?

Answer 21

no

Question 22

How many continents did Americans fight on?

Answer 22

3

Question 23

How many casualties were there by the end of 1943?

Answer 23

over 100,000

Question 24

How would people be notified that a loved one died?

Answer 24

Knock on a door

Question 25

What was placed in the windows of the people who lost a loved one?

Answer 25

gold stars

Question 26

What was the largest military operation in US history? When was it?

Answer 26

D-Day, June 6, 1944

Question 27

How did people react when FDR died?

Answer 27

very sad, shocked

Question 28

Who was the president after FDR?

Answer 28

Harry Truman

Question 29

What showed Americans that the Japanese would fight until the end?

Answer 29

suicidal kamikaze attacks

Question 30

What did the Enola Gay carry?

Answer 30

atomic bomb

Question 31

How many Americans died in WWII?

Answer 31

292,000

Question 32

How many veterans were there?

Answer 32

11,000,000

Question 33

How many American and Filipino troops had escaped Manila and were trapped at Bataan?

Answer 33

80,000

Question 34

What was in short supply?

Answer 34

clean waters, rations

Question 35

What were the men told were coming?

Answer 35

rescuers, reinforcement (help)

Question 36

Who was Secretary of War?

Answer 36

Henry Stimson

Question 37

What condition were the men in?

Answer 37

sick, weak from hunger, incapacitated

Question 38

Who slipped away to Australia and promised to return?

Answer 38

Douglass MacArthur

Question 39

What happened on April 9, 1942?

Answer 39

soldier sent with white flag, USA surrenders

Question 40

How did the Japanese view surrender?

Answer 40

people who surrender are cowards

Question 41

How many men died on the death march?

Answer 41

6,000-11,000

Question 42

How many men were put in Camp O'Donald?

Answer 42

60,000

Question 43

How many men died at Camp O'Donald?

Answer 43

16,000

Question 44

Did most Americans know the true condition of the Pacific Fleet?

Answer 44

no

Question 45

How many men did Glen Frasier bury at one time?

Answer 45

250

Question 46

What did he throw in the grave?

Answer 46

dog tags

Question 47

What fell in May 1942?

Answer 47

last American stronghold

Question 48

What did Executive Order 9066 do?

Answer 48

order all Japanese to internment camps

Question 49

How many people did it affect?

Answer 49

110,000

Question 50

What could you bring?

Answer 50

whatever you could carry