World History - War in the Pacific

What ultimately drove the United States to join WWII?

• Hitler's invasion of Poland

• The Non-Aggression Pact

• Winston Churchill launches surprise attack on US

• Japan attacks the US at Pearl Harbor

What caused the attack on Pearl Harbor?

• Japan believed the US was preventing their expansionism

• The US cut off oil supplies to Japan

• Hitler ordered Japan to execute this attack

• The US wanted to join the war

Which US territory did Japan conquer shortly after Pearl Harbor?

• Mexico

• Solomon Islands

• Philippines

• Australia

Who was forced to "march" during the Bataan Death March?

• Japanese soldiers

• US/Filipino soldiers

• German soldiers

• Italian soldiers

Why was the Battle of Midway so significant for the US?

• It wasn't because the US was defeated

• The US made it to Japan and was prepared to invade Hiroshima

• It was a turning point in the Pacific in which Japan was stopped, and the US was on the offensive

• It was the first time that the US had won a battle against Japan

Navajo Code Talkers helped the US to defeat Japan at which major LAND battle?

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of Midway

• Iwo Jima

• Battle of Coral Sea

The Americans would capture lightly-defended islands throughout the Pacific, one by one, until they had “HOPPED” their way towards Japan, this strategy was known as?

(a)  

Japanese suicide pilots that would crash into Allied ships were known as?

(a)  

Which 2 islands did the US fiercely fight in to get as close to Japan as possible?

• Iwo Jima

• Coral Sea

• Okinawa

• Japan

What was the main reason the US decided to use an atomic bomb rather than invade Japan?

• They weren't close enough to Japan to make a direct attack

• They feared more American lives would have been lost if they invaded Japan directly