Quiz 2 Review - Pacific Theater

Where did Japan want to create an empire?

• North America

• East Asia (Philippines)

• Canada

• Europe

By 1941, Who was in the way of Japan gaining their last empire?

• China

• Germany

• The US

• Canada

What is Japan’s leader called?

• Emperor

• Prime Minister

• President

• Congress

What was the Axis Alliance?

• China, United States, Guadalupe

• United States, Japan, China

• United States, Canada, Mexico

• Japan, Germany, and Italy

What did the US Oil Embargo do?

• Prevented oil from entering the US

• Allowed for China to intervene

• Prevented Japan from getting US Oil

• Allowed for Japan to get oil from anyone

What caused the US to declare war on Japan?

• The US felt like it

• The bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Hitler creating concentration camps

• Germany declaring war on the US

What was “island hopping”?

• The US moving towards Japan using islands to cut off resources

• the US placing bases on each island they encountered

• Japan took over islands one by one

• Similar to hopscotch

What were Kamikaze Attacks?

• A US tactic for dropping bombs

• When a plane malfunctions and goes down

• The invasion of Japan by the US

• When Japanese pilots purposely crashed into US Navy ships

What were the two BATTLES in Japanese Territory?

• Nagasaki and Iwo Jima

• Iwo Jima and Okinawa

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Hiroshima and Okinawa

What was The Manhattan Project?

• the team name for scientists in Manhattan

• When President Truman authorized bomb use

• the US secretly creating the atomic bomb

• The plan for Japan to surrender