Question 1

The military code-talking system refers to

Accepted Answer

Secret languages used for communication.

Question 2

During World War II, how did the policy of internment affect people of Japanese descent in the United States?

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They were forced to relocate to assembly centers.

Question 3

Which is one advantage of using Navajo as a military code language?

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Since few people understood it, it was a difficult code to break.

Question 4

Why were Japanese Americans living on the West Coast interned after the Pearl Harbor attack?

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Many people feared the presence of Japanese spies after Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor.

Question 5

During World War II, the US government sent people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps based on

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Whether they lived in an exclusion zone.

Question 6

In the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, the court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment

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Could be waived in a time of emergency such as war.

Question 7

Why did the US government think internment camps were necessary during World War II?

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To protect national security

Question 8

Which of the following best describes one reason that thousands of Japanese Americans voluntarily joined the US military during World War II?

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To show their loyalty to the US

Question 9

How did the Navajo serve in World War II?

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As code talkers in the Pacific

Question 10

What was the impact of President Roosevelt's approval of Executive Order 9066?

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More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes and move to internment camps.

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