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Japanese Strategy
American Strategy
Land Battle
The Manhatten Project
Rebuilding Begins
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General Kuribayashi
Who is the commander of the Japanese during the battle of Iwo Jima?
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Holland Smith.
Who is the general for the Americans during the battle of Iwo Jima?
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Historians described U.S. forces' attack against the Japanese defense as "throwing human flesh against reinforced concrete."
What was a way that the Americans attack the Japanese?
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General Leslie Groves and American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer
What general and american scientist led the manhatten project?
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Japan had surrendered, the allies turned to challenge of rebuilding war-torn nations.
Who surrendered the war?
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It was located south of the main Japanese island of Honshu.
Where is Iwo Jima located?
200
Under American control, the airfields could be used as emergency landing bases for damaged airplanes in the bombing raids.
What did the Americans use for the airfields?
200
Liquid gas, napalm and hand grenades were more useful against the underground Japanese.
How does the Americans fight the Japanese if they stayed underground?
200
Over 600,000 americans were involved in the project, although few knew the purpose.
About how many americans were involved in this project?
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he agreed to join the war against japan
What did stalin agree to?
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"No Japanese Survivors," because they planned not to survive for the country.
What did the Japanese call their own strategy?
300
Machine guns criss-crossed the beaches with deadly interlocking fire.
How were Machine Guns used during the battle of Iwo Jima?
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The manhatten project was an epic, secret, wartime effort to design and to build the world's first nuclear weapon.
Why was the manhatten project so important?
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In the end, 12 to 24 defendants were sentenced to death, and most of the remaining were sent to prison.
How many defendants were sentenced to death?
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Japanese strategy was for each soldier to kill 10 Americans before they themselves are killed.
What is an indivdual Japanese solider's goal?
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Iwo Jima was ‘softened up’ by bombing raids for more than two months before the actual amphibious assault.
What was the American's tactic to weaken the Japanese?
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There were no front lines. The Marines were above ground and the Japanese were below them underground. The Marines rarely saw an alive Japanese soldier. The Japanese could see the Marines perfectly.
How did the Japanese attack different from the Americans?
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The american quest was driven by the fear for germany would invent them to gain a decisive miliary advantage.
Why didnt people want hitler's germany to quest for a nuclear explosive?
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Japan occupied by u.s forces under the command of general Douglas MacArthur.
What did japan occupy?
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The Japanese didn't fight above ground. They fought the battle entirely from beneath the ground. They dug 1,500 rooms into the rock. These were connected with 16 miles of tunnels
What is the Japanese Strategy?
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The capture of Iwo Jima was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East.
Why did the Americans go in battle with the Japanese in Iwo Jima?
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Mt. Suribachi, the 550-foot volcanic cone at the islands southern tip, dominates both possible landing beaches. From here, Japanese gunners zeroed in on every inch of the landing beach.
What type of geography were the Americans and Japanese fight on?
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the possibility of induced nuclear change reactions.
In the 1930's and early 1940's fundamental diccoveries regarding the neutron and atomic physics allowed what possibility?
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During the seven-year american occupation, MacArthur reshaped Japan's Econlomy by intrducing free-market practiced led to remarkable economic recovery?
What did MacArthur introduce to the economy? What did it lead to?