Pearl Harbor

​Pearl Harbor

By Victor Trejo

Multiple Choice

What country did Japan invade that led to strained relations with the U.S.?

• China

• Russia

• Australia

• Pearl Harbor

• Poland

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What was the initial U.S. response to Japanese aggression in the Pacific?

• declare war

• drop atomic weapons

• oil embargo

• ignore it

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Where is Pearl Harbor?

• Hawaii

• Alaska

• Japan

• Philippines

• China

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What were two warnings about the attack that US failed to respond to?

• early radar detection

• sinking a midget submarine outside the harbor

• breaking of the code containing the Japanese plans

• the Japanese ambassador secretly warning the US secretary of state

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What key failures kept the Japanese attack from being a complete success?

• US aircraft carriers weren't in the harbor

• didn't destroy Pearl Harbor oil supplies

• failed to damage most of the US battleships

• failed to achieve complete surprise

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What type of ship proved to be the most important in the war in the Pacific?

• submarines

• battleships

• aircraft carriers

• heavy cruisers

• troop transports

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What was the US battle strategy in the war in the Pacific?

• take every Japanese stronghold one by one

• island hopping toward the Japanese mainland

• preventing Japanese expansion beyond Midway island

• negotiation to restore peace as quickly as possible

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Which battle in the Pacific proved to be the turning point in the war for the US?

• Midway

• Pearl Harbor

• Okinawa

• Tarawa

• Nagasaki

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Which two battles convinced the US that an invasion of the Japanese mainland would be too costly?

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

• Midway

• Guadalcanal

• Hiroshima

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On which two cities did the US drop atomic weapons?

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Tokyo

• Beijing

• Iwo Jima

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Which US president made the decision to drop the atomic bombs?

• Harry Truman

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Ronald Reagan

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When did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?

• 1929

• 1938

• 1941

• 1945

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When did the did the war in the Pacific end?

• 1943

• 1950

• 1941

• 1945