6-11 Flashcard (The Pacific War)

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What US general accepted the surrender of the Japanese forces?

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Douglas MacArthur

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Why did the Japanese want to take over other countries?

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Because they felt they needed the natural resources to become a major world power

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What were Kamikaze attacks?

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When Japanese planes would purposely crash into US ships

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The picture of marines raising a flag that was used for the Marine Corps Memorial was taken on what island?

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Iwo Jima

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In 1931, the Empire of Japan invades

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Manchuria

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USA entry into the war?

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attack on pearl harbour

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In order to defeat Japan, American forces will have to wage a long campaign of.......

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island hopping, slowly taking back islands

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On_________________ the first atomic bomb is dropped on ______________. On August 14, Japan surrenders.

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August 6, 1945, Hiroshima

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Took over after death of FDR. Approved the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (on August 6) and Nagasaki (on August 9).

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President Truman

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In April 1942, he was appointed supreme commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific. He spent the next two and a half years commanding an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific before famously returning to liberate the Philippines in October 1944.

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General McArthur