Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1942
When was pearl Harbor
In foreign policy, a term relating to a nation’s unwillingness to become involved in matters beyond its borders.
What is isolationist
the leader of the US during most of WW2
Who is FDR
a flat-bottomed boat used to transport soldiers from their ships to land
What are higgens boats
Famous American actor who died as a result of radiation poisoning due to nuclear test
John Wayne
This place was invaded by Japan in 1931, making Japan an Empire
What is Manchuria, China?
A term describing the US military strategy in the Pacific of bypassing heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations with air bases that could support the next advance.
What is Island Hopping?
The leader of the UK and Allie.
Who is Winston Churchill?
an invasion by both sea and land
what is an amphibious invasion?
japanese cities where the Atomic bomb was dropped
Hiroshima and Nagasake
Admiral Yamamoto was the mastermind behind what attack?
What is pearl harbor?
Information that is widely disseminated by a government or another entity to advance or undermine a specific cause, group, nation, etc.
What is Propaganda?
This person approved military plans to attack the Allies and make Japan an empire.
Emperor Hirohito
skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance
what is Island hopping?
discovered in 1938, this created enourmous amounts of energy needed for the nuclear bomb
splitting an Atom
How far away did the Japanese have to travel to get to Pearl harbor?
3,500 miles
Celebration of the signing of surrender documents by a Japanese delegation aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, formally ending World War II.
What is V-J Day?
The person who was in charge of the American troops in the Philippines
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
General MacAuthor, Admiral nimitz, and Admiral Halsey came up with this strategy
Island Hopping
The code name for the US trying to make a nuclear Bomb
The Manahhatten Project
2,400 Americans
How many people died in the Pearl Harbor attack?
Under this policy established by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson after Japanese forces invaded Manchuria in 1931, the United States refused to recognize the new Japanese regime in Manchuria or any other forced upon China
What is the Stimson Doctrine?
This person was the leader of the Japanese army starting in 1940
ToJo Hideki
Island hopping is important because...
it allowed the Allies close enough to drop the Atomic bomb
promised "prompt and utter destruction" if Japan did not surrender
the Potsdam Declaration