Pacific Theatre in World War II US History

Atomic Bomb

The Nuclear Age

Multiple Choice

Which event in the Pacific brought the United States into WWII?

• Battle of Coral Sea

• Midway

• Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Iwo Jima

Multiple Choice

What were the names of both bombs?

• Young boy and Old man

• Young man and Old boy

• Little boy and Fat man

Multiple Choice

The first test of the atomic bomb was successful?

• True

• False

Firebomb v. Atomic

• Operation Meetinghouse, the early March 1945 raid on Tokyo that involved over 330 B-29s dropping incendiary bombs from low-altitude at night, killed roughly 100,000 people, and may have injured and made homeless an order of magnitude more.

Multiple Choice

What was the main argument to drop the bomb, rather than invade mainland Japan?

• Because they wanted to see if the bomb would work

• Because they estimated that 500,000 to 1 million Allied soldiers would die in an invasion

• Because they did not have the soldiers or weapons left to attack Japan

• Because they did not think they could defeat the Japanese

Multiple Choice

What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• John F. Kennedy

Multiple Choice

What major event ended the war in the Pacific?

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Bombing of Great Britain

• Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Bombing of Midway