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War on Pacific revie
Nauman American History
| QuestionTh | Answer |
|---|---|
| Japan is about the size of what state? | California |
| Empire of the Rising Sun | Japan |
| Japanese religion | Shintoism |
| Death march | Bataan |
| American volunteer group who China hired | Flying Tigers |
| Chinese leader | Chain-Kai-shek |
| He took over after McArthur and was captured by Japanese | General Wainwright |
| McArthur escaped in a sub to what country | Australia |
| Only plane to ship battle in history | Battle of Coral Sea |
| Turning point in war in South Pacific | Midway |
| Great vacation site according to Japan | Australia |
| First land defeat | Guadalcanal |
| Taking over islands one by one | Island hopping |
| Last 2 islands taken | Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
| Navy construction workers | Seabees |
| Navy construction workers motto | "can do" |
| Means "divine wind" | Kamikaze |
| What Japanese suicide bombers called themselves | Wild Eagles |
| They believed in reincarnation 7 times | Samurai |
| 1100 miles-important to keep open for US to supply China | Burma rd |
| Japanese hid in these 3 places | Caves, tunnels, pill boxes |
| Highest ranked officer killed in WWII | General Simon Buckner |
| Scientist who made atomic bomb | Oppenheimer |
| Famous b-17 bomber | Memphis Belle |
| 2 inventions that came from WW2 | Velcro and ball point pen |
| Test site for the bombs | Trinity |
| Name for uranium bomb unarmed at take-off | Little Boy |
| Plutonium bomb armed at take-off | Fat Man |
| Ship that carried first bomb | USS Indianapolis |
| 1st pilot of the atomic bomb | Paul W. Tibbets |
| The plane that dropped the first atomic bomb | Enola Gray |
| Plane to drop the second atomic bomb | Bocks Car |
| The ship where the surrender took place | USS Missouri |
| The main Tokyo Rose who sold her story to COSMO for $2,000 dollars, she was the 1st women to be convicted of treason | Iva Toguri |
| 1. Most devastating war in world history 2. Greater involvement of civilians Ushered in atomic change Left power vacuums that the communist filled | Significance of World War 2 |
| 1. General Assembly 2. Security ` | United Nations |
| US, Great Britain , France, USSR, China | Big 5 Council |
| J Edgar Hoover was director for 48 years | FBI |
| LA- Mexicans who took pride in clothes vs. 50,000 sailors- Hank Labous was accused of murder, got life, 13 pennies in neckscarf | Zoot Suit Riot |
| 1st black riots to fight in war, flew 1,578 missions | Tuskegee Airman |
| Short missions | Sorties |
| First black general | Benjamin O Davis |
| Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin | Yalta Conference |
| 2 islands that we were planning to take in regards to the invasion | Honshu and Kyushu |
| Tuskegee Airman had help from Eleanor Roosevelt, the started as the 99th and changed too.... (66 died in the war) | 332nd |
| Country that agreed to pay US volunteers $600 a month, with a $500 bonus for every plane shot down | China |
| Island halfway between Hawaii and Guam | Wake |
| _____ was a free way to torture during the war | Sun |
| Had 55 subs, lost 52 of the subs and lost 3,500 men | United States |
| Memphis Belle and average bomber crew size was ?? | 10 |
| The last island we took on the South Pacific | Okinawa |
| Country that occupied Japan for 6 years after the war | United States |
| Emperor of Japan | Hirohito |
| Judge in the Nuremburg trials | Jackson |
| When the flank stops what happens? | the fighters are coming |
| Mini sub | Puffer |
| City in China, Singapore was the only other city on the map | Hong Kong |
| Pardoned by Gerald Ford | Iva Toguri |
| 2nd bomb that missed by three miles | Fat Man |
| 1st bomb | Thin Man or Little Boy |
| how many African Americans were unemployed | 2/3 |
| Said, "I shall return" when he left the Philippines | McArthur |
| Island with two flags, 2nd one was in the picture | Iwo Jima |
| The amount of sorties in the war | 3,553 |
| Bombs exploded ______ ft. off the ground | 1,850 |
| Where Big Gun was | Mt. Surabaci |
| Code name for first bomb project | Manhattan Project |
| Spy for Russians working on US bomb | Klaus Fuchs |
| UN headquarters | New York City |
| had pressurized cabin (one that carried the bombs) | New B-29s |
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