What were the two types of ground warfare used in WWII
Modern Warfare
Guerrilla Warfare
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When was Pearl harbor attacked?
December 7th, 1941
100
What was the name of the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
Little Boy
100
What was the name of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki?
Fat Man
100
What type of war machine was used to carry out "Kamikaze"
Fighter planes
200
What example airplane was used in the notes to represent air raiding/ dogfighting in WW2?
B-29 Bomber
200
How many Americans died during pearl harbor?
Two-thousand-four-hundred-two Americans were killed.
200
When was Little boy dropped, and how much of the city did it destroy?
Dropped at 8:15 AM and destroyed 5 square miles of the city.
200
What was the casualty/ death count of the Nagasaki bombing?
80,000 people were killed
140,000 were injured.
200
What significant roll would the lack of US warships in the pacific mean for war with Japan?
Crippled methods to waging war, means ineffective resistance of Japanese advances.
300
How many American lives was estimated to have been lost if the military went along with operation Downfall?
1 million.
300
Why was Pearl Harbor invaded?
It was only meant to be a preventive action. In order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning against the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States.
300
What was the initial death rate of the bomb's blast.
One-hundred-thousand people died and twenty-thousand people were injured
300
What was the original target planned to have the second atomic bomb dropped on?
Kokura, Japan
300
How powerful of a blast did the Atomic bomb Little boy Produce? (Hiroshima)
Equivalent to a 15,000 ton TNT explosion.
400
Name a benefit and disadvantage of nuclear warfare
1.) Brings the war to an end quickly without casualties on the home end.
2.) Destroys everything, including civilians and POW's
400
What is a "Kamikaze"
A pilot who takes their aircraft and purposely crashes it into an enemy vessel to destroy it while also taking their own life.
400
What was the destructive power of the bomb equivalent to?
Explosive blast equivalent to a 15000 ton TNT explosion
400
Why was the bombing attack forced to switch to the second target?
cloud coverage forced the bomber to move onto the second target, Nagasaki.
400
What was the weight and name one informational piece about each atomic bomb exploded in Japan.
“Fat Man” a 10,000 pound atomic bomb produced a 21- kiloton blast.
Little boy, a 9000 lb uranium-235 bomb
500
Describe "Blitzkrieg"
a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, and heavily backed up by close air support
500
Name three of the battleships sunk on this day.
USS Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Utah, and Oglala
500
What was Operation Downfall?
Conventionally bombing Japan and land invasion, which was estimated to cost 1 million American casualties
500
What was one of the unintentional side effects of the Nagasaki bombing?
At least 8 POW died and as many as 13 could have, one including a British citizen.
500
What method of attack would be used had Operation Downfall gone into effect instead of the two atomic bombs?
Conventional bombing of Japan and a coastal attack to take possession of the island.