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1
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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.

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Death March

2
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Acclaimed Albuquerque war-time journalist who was killed while reporting on the front-line in the pacific

A

Ernie Pyle

3
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Aggressive nation whose expansion and belligerence drew America into WWII

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Japan

4
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American physicist who led the team of scientists who worked secretly in los Alamos

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

5
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American president who made the decision to use nuclear weapons against japan

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Harry S. Truman

6
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American strategy for victory in pacific that required large navy and Air Force

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Island hopping

7
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American territory that japan successfully invaded and captured at the beginning of WWII

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Philippines

8
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Army engineer who oversaw the American efforts to develop the atomic bomb

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General Leslie Groves

9
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Beloved Albuquerque writer who published news stories about regular soldiers serving on the front

A

Ernie Pyle

10
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Commander of New Mexican troops who finally surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942

A

Charles G. Sage

11
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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

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Bracero program

12
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Disguised Japanese prisoner transports that were frequently target for US bombers

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Hell ships

13
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Formal surrender of the empire of japan

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August 15, 1945

14
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Group formed to seek information about and to send aid to New Mexicans who were imprisoned or missing in the Philippines

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Bataan relief organization

15
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Group whose children were killed while serving their country in the military during WWII

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Gold star mothers

16
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International protocols for the humane treatment of wartime prisoners. These were not followed in the Japanese POW camps on Luzon island

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Geneva conventions

17
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Untested Uranium fueled atomic weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945

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Little boy

18
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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.

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Internment camps

19
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Los Angeles engineer who recommended the use of Navajo language for military coding during WWII

A

Philip Johnston

20
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Location which Oppenheimer suggested as the headquarters for scientific work on nuclear weapons

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Los Alamos ranch school

21
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Location where American and Filipino forces surrendered control of the Philippines

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Bataan Peninsula

22
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Japanese city that first experienced the horrific destruction of a nuclear weapon

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Hiroshima

23
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New Mexican military unit that was stationed on Luzon island and participated in the Bataan Death March

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515th coast artillery

24
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place where the first atomic weapon detonated

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Trinity site

25
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Plutonium based atomic weapon whose first prototype was detonated in nm

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Fat man

26
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Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist whose work depicted the everyday life of American soldiers

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Bill maudlin

27
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Surprise Japanese attack’s that killed over 2000 Americans and prompted US entry into WWII

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Pearl Harbor

28
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wartime sacrifice that many New Mexicans at home made to support the war effort

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rationing

29
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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.

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true

30
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TRUE or FALSE: Ironically, most of the men who died during the Bataan Death March were killed by American bombers.

A

false

31
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TRUE or FALSE: Prisoners of war were treated inhumanely on both sides of the Pacific during WWII.

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false