Answers for Grades K-3:

1) The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor is located in , Honolulu, Hawaii.

2) World War II started in 1939 and ended in 1945.

3) The Invasion into Normandy occurred on June 6, 1944 by American and British troops.  

4) The sunken Arizona is a memorial to those who sacrificed their lives during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

5) The Battle of Midway lasted one day.

6) Each American GI was carrying approximately 60 pounds on his back when he plunged into the water from the landing craft.

7) “Loose Lips Sink Ships” means that during war your lips must be sealed to prevent from accidentally telling important information to the enemy.

8) The S.S. John A. Johnson was carrying 7,000 tons of military supplies including ammunition and explosives.

9) The only three facts a soldier was required to give if he was captured was name, grade, and army serial number.

10) The Doolittle Raid in April 1942 shook Japan’s military establishment, causing Japan to realize she wasn’t immune from air attacks.

 

Answers for Grades 4-8:

1) The Blitz was a period of intense bombing of London and other cities that continued until the following May of 1941.

2) The attacking Japanese planes came to Pearl Harbor in two waves.

3) The attack on Hiroshima was very significant because a single bomb dropped by a single airplane destroyed that city, leading to the end of World War II and introducing mankind to the Atomic Age.

4) The Japanese launched a total of 353 aircraft in the attack on Peal Harbor, consisting of fighter aircraft, torpedo bombers, high-level bombers and dive-bombers

5) The one-day battle (of Midway) reversed the tide of war in the Pacific, six months after Pearl Harbor. From that point on, Japan would be on the defensive.

6) Of all the convoy routes of World War II the most dangerous was the Arctic course, because of submarine threats, attacks by land-based aircraft and surface vessels, brutal and often unpredictable weather, and full exposure in twenty-fours of daylight.

7) One element so vital to America's ability to carry on the war in Europe and the Pacific were cargo haulers, such as the S.S. John A. Johnson.

8) Hitler called off the raids (the Blitz) in order to move his bombers east in preparation for Germany's invasion of Russia.

 9) Approximately 80,000 people lost their lives at Hiroshima. They lost their lives because of one plane and one bomb.

10) Of the eight battleships damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor, six returned to service.

 

 

Answers for Highschool:

1) The photograph was taken at the summit of Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima.

2) The Invasion into Normandy was so significant because the Allies had achieved a tenuous toehold that would be laboriously expanded over the next weeks and would lead ultimately to the Nazi defeat in the West.

3) RAF stands for England’s Royal Air Force.
4) Germany, Italy, and Japan participated in the Tripartite Pact.

5) The attack on Pearl Harbor convinced American, once and for all, to join England in the fight against the Nazi terror.

6) The island of Midway was important to the Japanese because in order to defend Japan, they must extend their defensive perimeter eastward. Midway, a tiny island a thousand miles from Hawaii, became the target.

7) The only thing to stand between the British and defeat was a small force of RAF pilots outnumbered in the air by four to one. Day after day the RAF scrambled their pilots into the sky to do battle often three, four or five times a day. The outcome was that England's air defense bent but did not break. By September, the Germans lost enthusiasm for the assault.

8) Yeager was surrounded by French Resistance fighters and began his escape journey that would take him to Spain, Gibraltar and back to England. Three and a half years later, the young pilot would make his mark in history as the first to break the sound barrier.

9) When French and British troops rushed to the defense of Holland and Belgium in 1940, they were caught in the headlong retreat and pushed back. The Allies fought valiantly but in vain - the German war machine advanced unperturbed. The invasion forced Chamberlain to resign. He was replaced by Winston Churchill.

10) The Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942 shook the Japanese military establishment that previously believed their homeland immune from air attack.