WWII Pacific Theater

What is the turning point in the Pacific Theater?

• Battle of Coral Sea
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Battle of El Alamein

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

• Island Hopping
• Strategic Embargos
• Blitzkreig
• Create a two front war

The US Strategy to defeat the Japanese was called...

• Total War
• The Boston Project 
• Blitzkrieg 
• Island Hopping 

The Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa showed that the Japanese were willing to surrender and end the war. 

• True
• False

Kamikaze Attacks were...

• Japanese Suicide Pilots
• Japanese Suicide Bomb Vests
• Japanese Samurai Sword Attacks
• Japanese Bombing Raids

What was the name of the top secret program to develop the US Nuclear Bombs? 

• The Detroit Project
• The Einstein Project
• Manhattan Project 
• The Quest For Power

Why did President Truman decide to drop the Atomic Bomb?

• To prevent American casualties .
• To kill lots of Japanese civilians to weaken their moral. 
• To destroy Japanese Industry
• To Weaken Japanese Army

The first city to be attacked with a Nuclear Bomb was....

• Hiroshima 
• Nagasaki 
• Tokyo 
• Berlin

The end of WW2 in the Pacific was celebrated as

• V-J Day
• V-E Day
• Memorial Day
• Veterans Day

Why was island hopping important? 

• It was a popular dance during the 1940's that helped lift morale on the home front.
• It helped increase trade between America and the Caribbean islands during WWII.
• It enabled island tribes to move between islands in order to escape the fighting during WWII.
• It allowed America to capture key islands in the Pacific and use them in order to get closer to Japan.