Pacific Theater Review (Virtual Day 2)

Military general who had significant control in Japan prior to World War II

• Hirojito

• Tojo

• Stalin

• Chang Kai Shek

Area invaded and taken by Japan; first act of aggression that led to World War II. (Acts of Aggression SA would be helpful.) 

• Manchuria

• China

• French Indochina

• Indonesia

Event that followed the Japanese take over of China in which Japanese forces brutalized the population of and murdered over 300,000 civilians and soldiers in a few months

• Russo-Chinese War

• Invasion of Korea

• Massacre of Nanking

• Pearl Harbor attack

This caused the US to declare war.

• Massacre of Nanking

• Oil Embargo

• Pearl Harbor attack

• USW

Name of the Theater where Allied forces faught Japanese forces

• Pacific Theater

• Northern Theater

• Atlantic Theater

• Southern Theater

There are 2 battlefronts in the Pacific Theater

• True

• False

US's attempt to retaliate against the Japanese, demonstrating vulnerability of Japanese defenses, but still not a turning point for the US

• Battle of Midway

• Doolittle Raids

• Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Okinawa

Turning Point Battle in the Pacific Theater

• D-Day

• Stalingrad

• Pearl Harbor

• Midway

Pacific Battle where the US regained the Phillipines from the Japanese

• Okinawa

• Midway

• Leyte Gulf

• Iwo Jima

These two islands/battles put the US in a prime position to invade mainland Japan toward the end of the war

• Iwo Jima and Okinawa

• Leyte Gulf and Okinawa

• Midway and Iwo Jima

• Midway and Leyte Gulf