WORLD WAR II REVIEW IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE YOU WILL PASS THE EXAM!!!
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1 WORLD WAR II REVIEW Would you consider these statements to be True or False? 1. The United States entered World War II due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 2. The code used by the Navajo Code Takers was never broken. 3. Forty Code Talkers trained during World War II. 4. The Navajo Code Talkers received the Congressional Gold Medal. 5. The first atomic bomb was tested in Roswell. Know these individuals and their contributions to WWII. 6. Phillip Johnston 7. Carl Gorman 8. Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard 9. General Groves 10. J. Robert Oppenheimer IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE YOU WILL PASS THE EXAM!!! 11. Of the soldiers captured by the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula a. 11,000 died on the Death March. b. thousands died in prison camps. c. Some captives died on ships en route to Japan. d. all of the above 12. The Navajo Code Talkers were enlisted in which branch of the military? a. Marines b. Army c. Navy d. Air Force 13. Navajo Code Talkers had to memorize words and phrases. a. ten b. fifty c. hundreds d. none of the above 14. Robert Hutchings Goddard developed a. a perfected Bazooka. b. a rocket that traveled at the speed of sound. c. a jet assisted device for aircraft. d. all of the above 15. Work on the atomic bomb through the Manhattan Project was conducted in
2 a. Santa Fe b. Los Alamos c. Silver City d. none of the above 16. The Manhattan Project started with a letter from a famous scientist to President Roosevelt in 1939, whom they warned of the possibility of nuclear weapons being developed by Germany. They were. a. Eistein b. Oppenheimer c. Rutherford d. Szilard 17. The Manhattan Project would not have come to fruition without an exceedingly able leader. In overall command was an Army General. What was his name? a. Vannevar Bush b. vinegar joe Stillwell c. Douglas MacArthur d. Leslie Groves 18. Probably the General s wisest decision was to pick a theoretical physicist with little practical engineering experience as overall scientific leader of the Manhattan Project. Who was it? a. J. Robert Oppenheimer b. Richard Feynmann c. Harold Urey d. Ralph Serber 19. Nuclear explosives require suitable fissile fuel, an excess of neutrons to sustain a chain reaction, and a sufficient mass to sustain fission of most of the available fuel. This mass was called what? a. critical mass b. self-sustaining mass c. available mass d. fissile mass 20. Only tow elements were fissile (i.e. broke into two roughly equal daughter nuclei) with thermal (i.e. slow) neutrons and produced one or more further neutrons to sustain the chain reation. These were? a. Plutonium 238 and Thorium 233 b. Uranium 238 and Plutonium 238 c. uranium 235 and Plutonium 239 d. Uranium 239 and Thorium The first nuclear chain reaction was conducted at the University of Chicago in 1942 by the great Enrico Fermi, using Uranium 238 and uertron moderating or slowing by
3 graphite. In what building was this first atomic pile located? (EXTRA CREDIT) a. Tennis courts b. Squash courts c. handball courts d. Swimming pool 22. To achieve nuclear detonation it is necessary to assemble the required mass in microseconds before the developing chain reaction blows the components apart. What two methods were employed? a. Gun and explosion b. implosion and explosion c. Gun and implosion d. Compression and detonation 23. Most of the theoretical work on the atomic bomb, and all of the final assembly was conducted at a secret site in NM where a whole town was erected in secret around a former boys school. What is the name of the place? a. Los Alamos b. Alamogordo c. Santa Fe d. White Sands 24. After the first nuclear explosion at 530am on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Site, the erudite Robert Oppenheimer was reminded of the following quotation: a. I saw a pale horse, and its rider was named Death b. Now we are all sons of bitches! c. I am become Death, The Shatterer of Worlds d. Don t expect to die a natural death 25. The Manhattan Project came to fruition with two nuclear blasts on the Japanese homeland of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August These blasts finished WWII, at a heavy cost in human life. What were the names of the B29 bombers which dropped the first nuclear bombs? a. The Great Artiste and Glamourous Glennis b. Nostromo and Sulaco c. Memphis Belle and G for George d. Enola Gay and Bock s Car 26. How many Navajo Code Talkers attended boot camp in 1942? a. 29 b. 6 c. 15 d Where did the Navajo Code Talkers land in August of 1942? a. Guadalcanal
4 b. Okinawa c. Iwo Jima d. Guam 28. During the Battle of Iwo Jima, how many messages did the Navajo Code Talkers decipher? a. about 60 b. more than 400 c. more than 800 d. less than When was the code that the Navajo Code Talkers used declassified? a b c d Under which President was the National Code Talkers Day established? a. Nixon b. Bush Sr. c. Carter d. Reagan 31. Where did the last amphibious assault in WWII take place that the NCT were involved in? a. Guam b. Okinawa c. Saipan d. Bougainville 32. In what month were the Congressional Gold and Silver medals awarded to the NCT? a. May b. September c. July d. April 33. Philip Johnston was the man who came up with the idea to use the Navajo language as a code. Did he grow up on the Navajo reservation? a. yes b. no 34. WWII was the only war the NCT were involved in. a. yes b. no 35. What was the name given to the first generation japanese in the US prior to WWII?
5 a. Sansei b. Nisei c. Issei d. Kibei 36. How many Japanese Americans were convicted of espionage in the US in WWII? a. 11 b. 3 c. 0 d What was the main reason the Japanese Americans were interned? a. they bombed Pearl Harbor b. The US felt they were spies for Japan, and thus a danger to our country s well being c. The Japanese Americans hated the US. d. the Japanese Americans developed a deadly virus. 38. By what name did the American Government wish to call the internment camps? a. concentration camps b. relocation centers c. living centers d. moving centers. 39. Even though Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii, only a small fraction of the Japanese Americans in Hawaii were interned a. true b. false 40. What year did the Japanese Americans receive an apology for their unnecessary internment? a b c d How much did the American Government compensate survivors of Japanese Internment Camps in the 1990s a. $2,000 b. $12,000 c. $20,000 d. $200, The prison camp where the Bataan Death March ended at had been built to house 9000 people. How many prisoners were there at the end of the march? a. 20,000 b. 65,000
6 c. 25,000 d. 50, How many American prisoners perished at the camp on Bataan? a. 4,500 b. 7,000 c. 1,500 d. 3, The Bataan Death March ended at Camp O Donnell. a. true b. false 45. Who was the commanding officer of the Japanese forces in the Phillipines from the invasion to the surrender? Answer 46. In what year were German POWS put into POW camps in the United States? a b c d In what two towns were German POW camps located in NM a. Roswell and Albuquerque b. Lordsburg and Las Cruces c. Albuquerque and Carlsbad d. Roswell and Lordsburg 48. What rules were followed to ensure prisoners were treated fairly a. Geneva Convention b. Moscow Treaty c. United Nations War Law d. None of the Above 49. What year where prisoners released and sent back to Europe a b c d. 1952
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