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S.S. Ch. 8 S. 4
Vocabulary Section 4
Term | Definition |
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Battle of Midway | U.S. victory over Japanese off Midway Island that proved to be the turning point in the war |
Island hopping | Allied strategy in Pacific of invading selected islands and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan |
Guadalcanal | first U.S. land victory over the Japanese, 1943 |
Manhattan Project | top-secret government project to develop the atomic bomb |
Hiroshima | Japanese city that was hit with the 1st atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 |
Code Talkers | Navajo Indians recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to transmit messages in the Navajo language |
Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilot |