WWII Holocaust, Atomic Bomb, Pacific Theatre

This practice—skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance—became known as_____________?

• Island Hoping

• Kamikaze

• Little Boy

• Fat Man

• Kristallnacht

Bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

• Island Hoping

• Kamikaze

• Little Boy

• Fat Man

• Kristallnacht

Also known as "Night of the Broken Glass" in November 1938 Jewish stores and homes were broken into.

• Island Hoping

• Kamikaze

• Little Boy

• Fat Man

• Kristallnacht

Bomb dropped on Nagasaki

• Island Hoping

• Kamikaze

• Little Boy

• Fat Man

• Kristallnacht

Suicide bombers deployed by the Japanese

• Island Hoping

• Kamikaze

• Little Boy

• Fat Man

• Kristallnacht

 A daring plan by the U.S. to strike back at Japan in response to Pearl Harbor. (1942) Where bombers were launched off air craft carriers. the target was Tokyo.

• Roosevelt Raid

• Doolittle Raid

• Pearls Revenge

• Bombing of Tokyo

After breaking the Japanese code, American forces become aware that The Japanese were planning an attack on this island. During this battle the US sank 4 Japanese carriers.

• Battle of Saipan

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Philippines

An attack on the island of (a)   with an aim to open supply and communication lines between the United States and Australia

The Battle of ____________________ began on June 15, 1944, when the U.S. forces launched an attack on the island of Saipan to gain an air base within a direct striking distance of mainland Japan.

• Guadalcanal

• Saipan

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

General Douglas MacArthur leads U.S. forces back to reclaim
these islands. The battles that liberated these Islands took place from October 1944 until March 1945.

• Midway

• Iwo Jima

• Okinawa

• Philippines