WWII Ch.26-4 Quiz Review

Americans launched their plans, while Japanese aircraft carriers were refueling on deck, resulting in the destruction of 4 Japanese carriers.

• Battle of Midway

• Bataan Death March

• Battle of Coral Sea

American and Japanese aircraft carriers clashed but neither side won a decisive victory. (U.S. stopped Japan from invading Australia.)

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Coral Sea

• Bataan Death March

70, 000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers surrendered to the Japanese and were forced to walk 63 - 65 miles to a prison camp.

• Battle of Midway

• D-Day

• Bataan Death March

2,500 Kamikaze missions launched by Japanese sinking 26 U.S. ships

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Coral Sea

• Battle of Midway

What was the LARGEST Naval Battle in history?

• Battle of Leyte

• Battle of Midway

• D-Day

What is the strategy called of capturing only the most important islands? The United States did this to get closer to Japan.

• Island kamikaze

• Island Hopping

• Beach Vacation

This person commanded the American and Filipino forces in the Philippines.

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

This American Admiral commanded the U.S. Pacific fleet.

• Chester Nimitz

• Douglas MacArthur

This was a Japanese strategy to purposely crash piloted planes into enemy ships.

• Sonar

• Island Hopping

• Kamikaze

Who was in charge of planning D-Day?

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

• Robert E. Lee