The Pacific Theater

What year was Pearl Harbor bombed?

• 1939

• 1941

• 1945

• 1947

The Japanese idea of flying planes into American ships hoping to sink them was called...

• island hopping

• kamikaze missions

• Holocaust

• atomic bomb

The reason that America did not invade the island of Japan is...

• Germany was our biggest focus at the time.

• it was too far away.

• we ran out of manpower and weapons.

• it would cost too many lives.

Before the end of the war, the _____ joined the Allies to try to defeat Japan.

• Italians

• Germans

• Soviets

• Chinese

What event was intended to prevent US intervention in the Pacific - giving Japan a 'free hand' to take over Southeast Asia?

• The Invasion of Malaya

• The attack on Pearl Harbor

• The neutrality pact between Japan & the USSR

• The invasion of China

From March 1942 the overall Allied Commander in the South Pacific, including over Australian troops was ...

• John Curtin

• Wintson Churchill

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Douglas Macarthur

The two key 1942 naval battles that turned the tide of war in the Pacific to the Allies' favour were

• Kokoda & Midway

• Coral Sea & Midway

• Coral Sea & Guadalcanal

• Kokoda & Guadalcanal

Durign this naval battle the Japanese navy lost its four best aircraft carriers - from this point on, Japan could only defend territory, not advance further.

• Coral Sea

• Midway

• Leyte Gulf

• Okinawa

Japan resorted to this desperate tactic during the final year of the war in order to fight against the overwhelming power of the US Navy

• Midget Submarines

• Human-Guided Torpedos

• Kamikaze Suicide Planes

• Chemical Weapons

The war with Japan ended when the United States ______.

• used suicide pilots to attack naval vessels

• started an economic blockade

• offered to unconditionally surrender

• dropped the atomic bombs