World War II in Pacific

The commander of US forces in the Pacific for most of World War II was

• Chester Nimitz
• Douglas MacArthur
• "Bull" Halsey
• Raymond Spruance

The US used a new weapon of warfare very effectively in the Pacific. This weapon was the

• flamethrower
• tank
• jet airplane
• aircraft carrier

US & British forces were forced into a death march after surrendering to the Japanese in early 1942 on what island?

• Iwo Jima
• Okinawa
• Philippines
• Guadalcanal

The first battle in history where all the fighting was done by airplanes from aircraft carriers was also where the US stopped the Japanese from capturing Australia. This battle was

• Midway
• Coral Sea
• Guadalcanal
• Marshall Islands

The battle in June of 1942 that was one of the turning points of World War II was

• Midway
• Coral Sea
• Iwo Jima
• Okinawa

The US used a new group to create a secret message system for the military in the Pacific. It was created by the

• Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
• captured Japanese soldiers
• Navajo code talkers
• recent graduates of Harvard

The leader of Chinese forces fighting the Japanese during World War II was

• Mao Tse-tung
• Hideki Tojo
• Chiang Kai-shek
• Kim Il-Sung

The US built a new way through Southeast Asia to equip & arm the Chinese military fighting against the Japanese. It was called the

• Chinese Air Drop
• Bataan March
• Burma Road
• Island Hop

The strategy of the US military for attacking the Japanese in the Pacific during WWII was called

• shock & awe
• nuclear force
• island hopping
• pick & choose

Most of 1944 for the US military involved battles centering around which islands?

• Marshall Islands
• Saipan
• Kwajalein
• Philippines