America in WWII

Question 1

The ______ was signed by congress in 1940 after France surrendered

Answer 1

Selective Service and Training Act

Question 2

The _____ would serve as the first peacetime draft ever in American History

Answer 2

Selective Service and TRaining Act

Question 3

In 1940, The Department of agriculture gave the Department of War ______ for the construction of military bases

Answer 3

350,000 acres of land

Question 4

At the beginning of WWII the military was ______

Answer 4

segregated

Question 5

new recruits were given examinations and vaccines for _____ and _______

Answer 5

Typhoid and Smallpox

Question 6

The Pittsburg Courier launched the _______ to stop racism at home and Hitlers racism abroad

Answer 6

Double V campaign

Question 7

_________ was the highest ranking AFrican AMerican officer at the rank of brigadier general

Answer 7

Colonel Benjamin O. Davis SR.

Question 8

the Air Force created the first African American Unit, the 99th pursuit squadron, known as the ______

Answer 8

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 9

The Tuskegee Airmen helped win the ________ in Italy

Answer 9

Battle of Anzio

Question 10

Another African American Unit was known as _____ would protect bombers

Answer 10

332nd Fighter Group

Question 11

The African American 761st tank battalion fought in the _________

Answer 11

Battle of the Bulge

Question 12

Second-generation Japanese Americans served in the ________ and ________.

Answer 12

100th infantry battalion and the 442nd regional combat team

Question 13

Navajo Marines served as_________

Answer 13

code talkers

Question 14

_____ hispanic americans recieved the medal of honor by the end of the war

Answer 14

17