Changing Tactics
Battles
Vocabulary
People
Potent Potables
100
This was the blind, bayonet charge that the Japanese would do prior to Peleilu. It almost never worked out for them...
Banzai charge
100
This was the surprise attack on the USA perpetrated by the Japanese in Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor
100
The suicidal attempt at sinking American ships by Japanese pilots late in the war was called _________.
BONUS
In Japanese it means...
Kamikaze
Divine wind
100
I was the president of the USA during much of WWII, up until my death in office.
FDR
100
Mr. McNelis Grandpa fought in this theater of WWII...
Pacific
200
This was the name of the Allied strategy of bouncing to each Japanese controlled island or atoll territory.
Island-hopping
200
The Battle of Midway was a turning point because it...
Led to the destruction of most if not all of the available Japanese aircraft carriers, giving the USA air superiority for the rest of the Pacific fighting.
200
What word or pscyhological symptom is being depicted here, drawn by an artist who was at Peleilu?
PTSD
200
I, an allied leader, was responsible for more deaths than Hitler was and soon became an enemy of the USA once the war ended. Who am I?
Stalin
200
Mr. McNelis played his favorite podcast series during the Peleilu lesson, which is that?
Hardcore History with Dan Carlin
300
The Japanese desired to engage the Allies in messy, costly fights for even the smallest of zones. This strategy of causing an enemy to expend all resources in order to fight is called war of a________.
Attrition
300
This battle was the first in which the Japanese switched up their tactics and it had deadly consequences for all involved.
Peleilu
300
The Japanese had the best fighter plane of WWII, due to its high rate of banking speed and low-cost of it's production. It was called the ________
Zero
300
I was the leader of all USA Naval forces in the Pacific during WWII, there is a ship today named after me. I planned and won the key battle at Midway.
Chester Nimitz
300
Mr. McNelis is Irish, which side did they take in WWII? Why?
They remained neutral, as they had just become a country and did not want to side with Germany OR the UK.
400
This type of flying and aircraft tactic was when Allied planes would descend rapidly from high altitude, dropping their payload straight down onto enemy ships.
Dive bombing
400
This battle for a small, rocky Japanese island included the most famous photograph of the Marine corps as many men work together to raise the USA's flag. It was at _________
Iwo Jima
400
This project took its name because it was initially planned and designed in a borough of NYC. It had many participants all over the USA and brought about a new age of energy and danger.
Manhattan Project
400
I AM BECOME DEATH, said this eccentric scientist who invented the atomic bomb.
J Robert Oppenheimer
400
Mr. McNelis loves the game of chess, and these two are his favorite players. One is from Norway and the other is from the USSR, Azerbaijian. Both are alive today, who are they?
Kasparov and Carlsen
500
The Americans knew about the plans for the Japanese at Midway because they had secretly done what?!
Cracked the Japanese code
500
Name both atomically affected cities that were key in ending the war for good.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
500
A Rations were considered the best kind of ration, and each letter down the alphabet meant a slightly less delicious meal for the soldier. What was the lowest and least desirable labeled ration soldiers could eat? Some of them read, "Simply add water..." and it would cook itself?!
K Ration
500
I was the Prime Minister of Japan during the entire war and was put on trial and killed after the war ended due to the many crimes against humanity committed by Japanese soldiers.
PM TOJO
500
Mr. McNelis is currently playing a new FPS game, where 100 people join a game and compete on 3 different teams to fly helicopters, build forts, and seize the "hot zone". What is this game called?
War Dogs