Download Name: Kenneth Crouthamel HONORING OUR VETERANS

Name: Kenneth Crouthamel
HONORING OUR VETERANS
Directions: What do you know about Veterans Day? Explore the Web site given to
learn about that national holiday. Then read each statement below. In the word
list under the sentences, find the word that best completes each. Write the letter
of the correct word on the line next to each statement.
Web Resources: Veterans Day
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
1. ___G___ Declared a national holiday in 1938, this holiday was dedicated to
remembering veterans of World War I.
2. ___H___ This U.S. president was the first to declare November 11 a holiday.
3. ___G___ In 1954, this U.S. president changed the name of the holiday
celebrated on November 11 to Veterans Day, a day for honoring all veterans.
4. ___F___ November 11 was chosen as the day for honoring U.S. veterans
because this war ended on November 11, 1918.
5. ____I___ This year, Americans will celebrate Veterans Day on this date.
Word List:
a. Gerald R. Ford
f. World War I
b. Memorial Day
g. Armistice Day
c. September 11
h. Woodrow Wilson
d. Veterans Day
i. November 11
e. Dwight David Eisenhower
j. July 4
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Use the information at the Veterans Day Web site:
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
List ten dates and facts here that you will use to create your timeline
1. June 28, 1919, Treaty of
Versailles was signed
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. in 1954, after World War II had
required the greatest mobilization of
soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in
the Nation’s history; after American
forces had fought aggression in Korea,
the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the
veterans service organizations,
amended the Act of 1938 by striking
out the word "Armistice" and inserting
in its place the word "Veterans." With
the approval of this legislation (Public
Law 380) on June 1, 1954
November 1919, President
7. The Uniform Holiday Bill (Public Law
Wilson proclaimed November 11 90-363 (82 Stat. 250)) was signed on
as the first commemoration of
June 28, 1968, and was intended to
Armistice Day
ensure three-day weekends for Federal
employees by celebrating four national
holidays on Mondays
United States Congress officially 8. Later that same year, on October 8th,
recognized the end of World War President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued
I when it passed a concurrent
the first "Veterans Day Proclamation"
resolution on June 4, 1926
May 13, 1938, made the 11th of 9. In 1958, the White House advised
November in each year a legal
VA's General Counsel that the 1954
holiday—a day to be dedicated to designation of the VA Administrator as
the cause of world peace and to
Chairman of the Veterans Day National
be thereafter celebrated and
Committee applied to all subsequent
known as "Armistice Day."
VA Administrators.
The first Veterans Day under the 10. November 11, 1918, was
new law was observed with much
when World War 2 ended.
confusion on October 25, 1971.
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