WWII / Pacific Theater

Match the following WWII events to the correct date

• Aug. 9, 1945

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Aug. 6, 1945

• U.S. drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

• June 6, 1944

• U.S. drops Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

• Sep. 1, 1939

• Germany Invades Poland

• Dec. 7, 1941

• D-Day Invasion

U.S. military strategy used in the Pacific Theater to get close enough to launch an attack on Japan's mainland

• Isolationism

• Leapfrogging

• Island Hopping

• Encircling

Allied victory that served as a turning point in the Pacific Theater

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of Midway

U.S. military action that aimed to boost American morale by bombing the Japanese mainland.

• Bataan Death March

• Doolittle Raid

• Battle of Midway

• Operation Overlord

Why did the U.S. seize Pacific Islands during World War II?

• To gain access to vital natural resources

• To fulfill commitments to military alliances

• To protect shipping routes for neutral countries

• To establish military bases for use in further atttacks

Match the following

• Atomic bombings in World War II

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• US used these as bases to attack Japan

• Battle of Midway

• Turning point battle in the Pacific

• Okinawa and Iwo Jima