Major Battles/Places
These battles were the largest and most complex naval engagements in history fought by the Japanese and Americans for control of the Philippine Islands.
What were the battles for Leyte Gulf?
Name the three leaders of the Axis Powers and their Countries.
1. Adolf Hitler - Germany
2. Benito Mussolini - Italy
3. Hideki Tojo - Japan
The name of the brutal march of United States and Philippine prisoners by the Japanese in spring of 1942.
What is the Bataan Death March?
This was in May 1942, and was entirely an aircraft battle. Even thought the battle resulted in the loss of the USS Lexington, it is considered a strategic victory for the Allies. Stopped the further attack of Australia.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
This was the formal warning given to the Japanese that if they did not surrender, the country faced "prompt and utter destruction."
What is the Potsdam Declaration?
This attack by the Japanese took place on December 7, 1941.
What is the Pearl Harbor attack?
Who was the supreme Allied Commander in the war in the Pacific?
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
What is the secret program during World War II to develop the atomic bomb?
What is the Manhattan Project
Nearly a third died of the total number who will die in the "whole war in the Pacific." This inhabitable island is known for the iconic symbol of American soldiers struggling to raise the American flag on top of the island.
What is Iwo Jima?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What was the name of the place & location where the atomic bomb was first tested?
Trinity Site, New Mexico
The first major island battle on the way to Japan won by Americans (Allies), and was their first experience with jungle warfare. This battle was the first major Allied offensive in the Pacific - first battle where U.S. attacked Japan. 11,000 marines land here to capture Japanese Air-field. The Japanese were forced to evacuate the island.
What is the Battle of Guadalcanal?
When the civilian government of Japan fell in October 1941, he headed the military government which replaced it.
Who was General Hideki Tojo?
Japanese suicide bombers during World War II.
What are kamikazes?
On September 2, 1945, Japan signed their formal surrender aboard which United States battleship?
What is the battleship Missouri?
This person wrote to President Roosevelt to warn him about this powerful new technology and that it could be extremely dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands.
Albert Einstein
One of the bloodiest single island battles in the Pacific won by Allies. This opened the door to an invasion of Japan (Allies were in bombing distance of Japan).
What is the Battle of Okinawa
Name/list the four leaders of the Allies during World War II & their country?
Who were:
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt - United States of America
2. Harry S. Truman - United States of America
3. Winston Churchill - Great Britain
4. Joseph Stalin - USSR/Russia
What was "little boy"?
Code-name of an atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
What is the date and name of the end of World War II in the Pacific, the surrender of Japan?
What is August 15, 1945 - V-J Day
Similar to the Nuremberg trials held in Germany, where where trials held that held Japanese leaders responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity?
Tokyo, Japan
June 1942 battle between Japanese & Americans that was a major turning point in the war in the Pacific. United States was able to break the Japanese code and intercept plans for battle.
What is the Battle of Midway
Discovered that nuclear fission makes a blast of energy. Also referred to as the 'mother of the atomic bomb?'
Who is Lise Meitner?
What was "Fat man"?
Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This was an amphibious (land and water) force attack in the Pacific which was just as complex as D-Day in Europe. The U.S. invasion of the island resulted in an Allied victory.
What are the:
1. Battle of Saipan
2. Battle of Philippine Sea