Weapons & Tactics
Allied strategy to capture specific Japanese-held islands while bypassing others to move closer to Japan.
Island Hopping.
Goal of destroying enemy aircraft and airfields to control the skies.
Air Superiority.
Which country attacked Pearl Harbor and provoked the U.S.A. of officially joining World War II.
Japan (The Empire of Japan).
Who was the emperor of The Empire of Japan during World War II.
Emperor Hirohito.
The surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii that brought the United States into WWII.
Attack on Pearl Harbor.
The codename for the first atomic bomb used in warfare, dropped by the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay on Hiroshima, Japan.
"Little Boy"
Japanese suicide pilots who loaded planes with explosives and crashed them into Allied ships.
Kamikaze.
The theater of war where most of the fighting between Japanese and American forces took place over which ocean?
The Pacific Ocean.
The 32nd U.S. President (1933–1945) who led the nation through most of World War II
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (F.D.R.).
One of the bloodiest, most iconic, and intensely fought battles in Marine Corps history, on an island just south of Tokyo. The 2nd to last major battle of the pacific theater.
Battle of Iwo Jima.
The codename for the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan, over the city of Nagasaki during World War II.
"Fat Man."
The U.S. government forcibly incarcerated approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans—two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens—in ten remote "relocation centers" from 1942 to 1945.
Japanese Internment.
Led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Allied forces campaigned to retake the islands of which nation in October of 1944, fulfilling his promise to return?
The Philippines.
The 33rd U.S. President (1945–1953), taking office upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in April 1945. He led the U.S. through the final, crucial months of WWII.
Harry S. Truman.
A critical turning point in the Pacific Theater, where American forces destroyed four Japanese carriers and seized the initiative.
Battle of Midway.
A capital warship designed as a seagoing airbase, featuring a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities to launch, recover, and service aircraft.
Aircraft Carrier.
The top-secret US program that developed the atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project.
The 50th state of the U.S.A. in which was host to the infamous surprise attack on the American Fleet, during World War II, at Pearl Harbor.
Hawaii.
Commander of the US Pacific Fleet during World War II.
Admiral Chester Nimitz.
The largest amphibious assault in the Pacific and the final major battle before the atomic bombings, resulting in massive casualties on both sides.
Battle of Okinawa.
In WWII was a Japanese tactic involving mass, desperate, and often suicidal infantry assaults against enemy lines, typically launched when defeat was imminent to avoid the shame of surrender.
Banzai charge (or Banzai attack).
A brutal 65-mile forced march of roughly 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese army in April 1942 during World War II.
The Bataan Death March.
What were the two British commonwealth countries, whose combined fighting forces was referred to as ANZAC, that fought with the Americans for the Allied forces during World War II against the Japanese Empire?
Australia & New Zealand.
Commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific.
General Douglas MacArthur.
Considered the largest naval battle of WWII, it effectively destroyed the remaining Japanese fleet capacity and allowed the liberation of the Philippines.
Battle of Leyte Gulf.