Dates
When did American forces begin island hopping?
1943
What top-secret project did the U.S. government launch with a goal to develop an atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
Which leader committed suicide in Berlin on April 30?
Hitler
When did MacArthur's troops in the Philippines surrender?
April 1942
What was the turning point of the war in Pacific?
The Battle of Midway
President Roosevelt
When did the Soviet Union declare war on Japan?
May 1945
What was it called when Japan surrendered after the second explosion?
V-J Day (Victory-Japan Day)
Where did General MacAurther retreat to after being attacked by Japanese forces?
Bataan
How many days passed between the second bombing over Nagasaki and the first bombing over Hiroshima?
3 days
Coral Sea
Who was placed in charge of the secret weapons laboratory at Alamos?
Physicist Robert Oppenheimer
When did the Japanese attempt to lure the U.S. Pacific fleet into a trap near the island of Midway?
June 1942
In what event did the Japanese force exhausted American and Filipino prisoners-of-war to walk 80-miles in the heat?
Bataan Death March
After Roosevelts death, who discovered the Manhattan Project?
Harry S. Truman