World War II Pacific Theater

In what US State is the naval base at Pearl Harbor located?

• California

• Cutler

• Hawaii

• Soviet Union

Which best describes Japan's attack at Pearl Harbor?

• Sneak, surprise attack

• face to face, man to man

• long and drawn out

• war of attrition

How many waves of attacks did the Japanese launch at Pearl Harbor?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Why did Japan attack the US at Pearl Harbor?

• To kill the United States' president

• The US attacked first

• They are racist

• To prevent the US from interfering with Japan's conquering

What is Island Hopping?

• secret level in Super Mario Brothers

• US strategy in the Pacific where they hopped from island to island pushing the Japanese back to their homeland

• US strategy for defeating Hitler

• Japanese strategy used against the USA

Which best describes the Battle of Midway?

• US defeated Japan

• Turning point when US broke the Japanese code, were waiting for Japan and won by sinking four Japanese ships

• Battle in middle of Pacific Ocean

• Battle where the US made Japan surrender

At Midway, what gave the US the advantage over Japan?

• submarines

• kamikaze

• atomic bombs

• US broke Japan's code

What advantage did winning the Battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima give the US?

• Many Japanese died

• Close enough to Japan to bomb them and invade

• Japan surrendered

• Hitler gave up supporting Japan

Why was the decision to invade or use atomic bomb so difficult?

• invasion would kill millions and the atomic bomb effects were so terrible

• it was an easy decision to make

• atomic bomb would kill millions and invasion effects were so terrible

• the weather made it difficult to do both

Japan surrendered after the US dropped atomic bombs on what two Japanese cities?

• Tokyo and Kyoto

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Mitsubishi and Toyota

• Sony and Nintendo