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President for the majority of the war in the Pacific
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
What is "Island Hopping"
Phrase given to a strategy from the U.S.to gain military bases and secure many small islands in the Pacific
100
Who produced the first atomic bombs during WW11
What is The Manhattan Project
100
Definition of a Code Talker
People who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime
100
What made Japan officially surrender to the U.S.
America dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
200
He commanded the Center Pacific Theatre
Who is Admiral Chester Nimitz
200
What battle was island hopping created after?
What is the Battle of Midway
200
What cities carried out the Manhattan Project
Hanford Washington, Oak Ridge Tennessee and Los Alamos New Mexico
200
Who were the code talkers
Native Americans
200
This famous battle is forever immortalized by a memorial that sits at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima
300
He was classified both as a wartime criminal and figurehead i Japan
Who is Emperor Hirohito
300
What was the purpose of island hopping
To capture certain key islands one after another until Japan came within range of American bombers.
300
Which atomic bomb was used first
What is The Trinity bomb
300
How many Native Americans were in the USMC
Between 400 and 500
300
How many different code talker languages did the U.S. use
What is eight
400
He gave the famous "I have returned speech" in Oct 20, 1944 in the Philippines
Who is Douglas MacAurthur
400
Who were the two commanders who created the strategy of island hopping
Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz
400
Out of the 3 cities who was the first to build the atomic bomb
Los Alamos, New Mexico
400
What code talker language was used the most during WW11
What is Navajo
400
What were the names of the atomic bombs
Trinity, Little Boy and Fat Man
500
He decided to employ nuclear weapons against Japan in 1945
Who is Harry Truman
500
Was island hopping a successful strategy
Yes, it allowed the U.S. to gain control over significant islands in the Pacific to get close enough to Japan and launch an invasion
500
How many atomic bombs did they make
What is three
500
U.S. President Ronald Reagan named August 14, 1982 as what day
What is Navajo Code Talkers Day
500
What does V-J Day stand for
Victoryover Japan Day