World War II (Pacific Theater)

The reason(s) that Japan expanded its territory after its attack on Pearl Harbor is/are....

• Japan wanted to strike first.

• Japan needed a buffer from the U.S. and additional resources.

• Japan had instructions from its ally, Germany.

• Japan had longstanding grudges with its neighbors.

What was Japan's reasons for attacking Midway?

• Midway was a good site to draw aircraft carriers in to fight and eliminate them.

• Midway was FDR's favorite island.

• The U.S. had an important naval base at Midway.

• Midway was once a Japanese possession.

The United States strategy of Island Hopping involves....

• dropping bombs called "Hoppies" on Japan's many islands.

• hopping really hard on islands to increase seismic activity.

• challenging the Japenese to long and high jumping competitions.

• invading certain islands while bypassing others.

What is the name of the location of the infamous location for Japanese abuse of American and Fillipino POW's?

• Guadalcanal

• Bataan

• Midway

• Okinawa

Where did the U.S. drop the first atomic bomb?

• Tokyo

• Kyoto

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

Midway was a significant battle because....

• the Japanese Navy was eliminated.

• it was the first territory taken back from Japan.

• Japanese lost many of its ships and its best pilots.

• Midway had valuable resources.

What strategy was behind the U.S. choosing Hiroshima and Nagasaki for its atomic strikes?

• They had military airfields and hundreds of square miles of jungle.

• The Emperors lived in those cities and they had well developed military forts.

• They had low civilian populations and many well developed industries.

• They were untouched from conventional bombings and they had a high civilian population.

Japan's attack at Pearl Harbor was unsuccessful due to its failure to eliminate....

• battleships

• airplanes

• civilians

• aircraft carriers

[1] Why did the U.S. get involved in WWII?

• To respond to the Japanese embargo

• Japan captured the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines

• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941

• Germany tried to get Mexico to go to war against the United States

[3] What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project?

• It was the training corps that recruited the Navajo Code Talkers

• It trained special assassins to take the Japanese Emperor

• To create working atomic weapons for use in the war

• To improve the Island Hopping strategy