Japan & USA
Pacific Battles
American Policy
End of World War II
Bonus Questions
100

This American president led the USA through the Great Depression and most of World War II

Franklin D. Roosevelt

100

The Battles of Midway, Coral Reef, and Guadalcanal were all fought in this ocean

Pacific Ocean

100

These acts were passed to prevent the United States from entering World War II

Neutrality Acts

100

Japan surrendered after these two catastrophic events

Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings
100

This horrid event saw the Japanese kill and ransack an entire Chinese city, killing over 300,000 civilians, which they deny to this day

Rape of Nanking

200

This event led to the USA declaring war on Japan and entering World War II

Pearl Harbor
200

General MacArthur was forced to have his troops evacuate from this American territory in Asia after Japan's invasion in 1941

The Philippines

200

The USA took Japanese-Americans and put them here illegally due to fear and racism; violating their rights and ruining their lives

Japanese Internment Camps

200

This was the codename used by the USA for the creation of the Atomic Bombs

Manhattan Project

200

These are the names of the two bombs dropped on Japan

Little Boy & Fat Man

300

This Japanese Emperor led Japan through World War II

Emperor Hirohito

300

This American war strategy put the US in a position to bomb Japan and win the war, after the grueling, tedious strategy paid off

Island Hopping
300

Even after the invasion of this country by Germany in 1939, the United States remained neutral

Poland

300

This conference was held in the USSR, where the allies met to discuss Germany's defeat

Yalta Conference

300

Leningrad and Stalingrad are known as what two Russian cities today?

St. Petersburg & Volgograd

400

Japan attempted to capture this region of China first, before World War II even began

Manchuria

400

This battle led the US to sink all of Japan's aircraft carriers and significantly turned the tide of the remainder of the war

Battle of Midway

400

The USA had these three major issues, preventing them from wanting to join World War II earlier

European Affairs/Post-WWI, Great Depression, Neutrality Acts

400

This conference was held in Germany in the Summer of 1945, where the allied powers decided on how to defeat Japan

Potsdam Conference

400

This term was used for women that Japan would capture from nations like Korea and Taiwan and force into prostitution for soldiers

"Comfort Women"

500

This type of government was created by the US immediately after it captured Japan in August 1945

Military Advisory Government

500
Battling on this Japanese island was one of the most difficult, it led to the death of many civilians

Okinawa

500

Women greatly helped in the Homefront during World War II, and some enlisted; they were still forbidden from this military occupation

Frontline Soldier

500

This event saw the remaining lead Nazis in court for their war crimes, sentencing many of them to death

Nuremburg Trials

500

This Japanese Naval General planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and warned of America's military power

Isoroku Yamamoto