Strategies
Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.
Kamikaze
This attack was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base in Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States’ entry into World War II.
Pearl harbor
the first test of the atomic bomb was called what
Trinity
the geographical midway point in the Pacific war was called what?
Midway
Allowed attacks without putting their ships at risk. fought where no other ships could fight therefore disrupting Japanese/allied supply lines by intercepting them and taking the ships out. Later ships came up with ways to defend themselves from these attacks. One way to defend was depth charges.
Submarine warfare
Two islands were one of the bloodiest land battles of the war took place. Japanese lost over 100,000 troops in contrast to the 12,000 the US lost
Iwo Jima & Okinawa
Who was the headed the Manhattan project?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
island roughly 350 miles away from southern Japan where one of the bloodiest battles occurred in the war?
Okinawa
The strategy involved bypassing heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead capturing less well-defended islands that could be used as bases for further operations
island hoping
"I shall return," said by who after being ordered to withdraw?
Bonus* name the island they were being ordered to withdraw from. (100 points)
General George MacArthur
The Philippines
Top secret research and development during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
Manhattan project
island 750 miles southeast of mainland Japan was the closest island occupied by US before Okinawa
Iwo Jima
strategy based on geographical factors, Japan used this when determining hypothetical enemies and after the oil embargo by the US which is why they launched an aggressive attack on the Philippines and Dutch east Indies for supplies.
geostrategic
a United States decisive victory that was the turning point in the Pacific part of WWII
Battle of midway
list the two names given to the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
*Bonus if you can name the city and order they were dropped (100 points)
2nd Nagasaki with Fat man and 1st Hiroshima with little boy
Hiroshima is a part of mainland Japan, True or false.
true
what is it called when Japanese soldiers, generals, or civilians commit ritualistic suicide by disemboweling themselves with a dagger or sword? they would rather die than surrender.
seppuku
was one of the longest and bloodiest campaigns of World War II. Japanese called it the "island of death."
The first major offensive by Allied forces in the Pacific
Guadalcanal campaign
List at least two reasons the US dropped the bombs on Japan.
-force the Japanese government to surrender
-shorten the war & save US lives
-prove to Japan, the soviets, and the world the US had the weapon
-End war sooner w/o Soviet help
True or False: Truman knew about the atomic bomb and what the plans were prior to FDRs death.