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Pacific WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pearl Harbor Attack | on December 7th of 1941, the Japanese air forces bombed Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base in Hawaii |
| Result Of Pearl Harbor Attack | U.S. declares war on Japan, while Italy & Germany declare war on the U.S. |
| How The U.S. Missed The Pearl Harbor Attack | huge delay in communication, an officer chose not to alert others, & U.S. was not involved in conflict |
| Japanese Interment Camps | in 1942, FDR sent 120,000 Japanese Americans into camps in fear that they would side with Japan |
| Kamikazes | Japanese pilots who would load their planes with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. general who commanded the troops in the Pacific |
| Chester Nimitz | U.S. admiral of the Pacific fleet during WWII who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy |
| Midway Battle | turning point in the Pacific, destroying 4 Japanese planes and 322 destoyers |
| Guadalcanal | a Solomon Island in south-west Pacific that was a Japanese building airstrip, where a battle occurred resulting in success for the Allies |
| Iwo Jima | one of WWII's bloodiest battles where the U.S. fought Japan as they got closer |
| Okinawa | site of important battle near the Japanese mainland, which held the final battle before the atomic bombs |
| Trinity Test | the secret testing of the atomic bombs by the U.S. in New Mexico in 1945 |
| Bataan Death March | Japanese marched 70,000 Filipino & American soldiers 60 miles in harsh conditions in 1942 |
| Japanese Zero | a long-range fighter aircraft that operated for the Japanese Navy from 1940-1945 |
| Coral Sea Battle | first defeat of Japanese warfare, a turning point for the U.S., which prevented the Japanese from invading Port Moresby |
| Leyte Gulf Battle | WWII's largest naval battle that resulted in an Allie victory |
| Robert Oppenheimer | leader of the American team behind the Manhattan Project |
| Names Of The First Two Atomic Bombs | Fat Man & Little Boy |
| Saipan and Tinian | 22,000 Japanese civilians walked off a cliff when the U.S. victory was nearly certain |
| Harry Truman | became President after the passing of FDR & ordered to drop the atomic bombs |
| Bonzai Charge | an unsuccessful but famous attack by Japan where soldiers attached bayonets and charged enemy, yelling "Long live the Emperor!" |
| USS Indianapolis | ship that delivered the atomic bomb to Tinian Island and was sunk by a Japanese sub |
| Aircraft Carrier | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings |
| Marine Corps | fast response task force capable of quick action in areas requiring emergency intervention using both ground and air combat elements |
| Bushido Code | political/cultural system of nationalism in Japan that tried to unite the local clans into one Japanese identity |
| Doolittle Raid | a retaliatory attack by U.S. bombers after the Japanese bomber Pearl Harbor |
| Douglas MacArthur Quote & Meaning | "I shall return," meaning he would return and free the Philipines |
| POW Camps | prisoner of war camps |
| Iwo Jima & Okinawa | last two heavily defended Japanese islands, that were conquered by the U.S. in 1945 |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the U.S. project to set up & develop atomic bombs in 1942 |
| Albert Einstein | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed |
| The Splitting Of The Atom | division of the atom into two or more parts, causing a nuclear reaction |
| Hiroshima | first city in Japan to be attacked by the atomic bomb in 1945, which hastened the end of WWII |
| Nagasaki | second city in Japan attacked by the atomic bomb in 1945 |
| Enola Gay | American B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 |
| Windtalkers | U.S. Marines that used complex Native American language to communicate during the war, which became a valuable U.S. tool during the war |
| Semper Fidelis | also known as Semper Fi, was a motto of the U.S. Marine Corps meaning Always Faithful |
| FDR Infamy Speech | FDR & Congress officially declared war on Japan, making sure American citizens recognized and remembered the tragedies |
| Truman's Two Choices | drop bomb on Japan or invade Japan |
| USS Missouri | battleship that hosted the surrender ceremony of Japan on September 2nd of 1945 |
| Damage From Pearl Harbor | resulted in the deaths of 2,403 people, including civilians, & damaged 19 U.S. ships |
| Battle Of Saipan | battle launched by the U.S. onto Japanese forces, resulting in U.S. victory & allowing them to advance onto Japanese home islands |
| The Occupation Of Japan | the initial phase of the occupation focused on punishing Japan for having made war on the Allies, but was reformed to ensure that Japan would never again be a threat to world peace |
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