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Pacific WW2 Campaign

You Gotta Know These World War II Campaigns in the Pacific Theater

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The primary cause of WWII in East Asia, starting with the 1931 occupation of Manchuria Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
The puppet state set up by Japanese forces in Manchuria in 1931 Manchukuo
The 1937 incident that resulted in open war between Japan and China Marco Polo Bridge Incident
The notorious atrocities committed by Japanese forces in 1937 during the invasion of China Rape of Nanking
The Nationalist Chinese leader whose war effort was hindered by internal conflict with Mao Zedong's communists Chiang Kai-Shek
The American fighter pilots who supported the Chinese war effort from India, deployed over the Himalayas Flying Tigers
The U.S. Navy base in Hawaii targeted by a Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
The Japanese Admiral who planned the strike on Pearl Harbor Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
The U.S. battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor that became a memorial USS Arizona
The U.S. President who described December 7, 1941, as a “date which will live in infamy” Franklin Roosevelt
The battle following Pearl Harbor where Americans retreated to a peninsula in the Philippines and held out for four months Battle of Bataan
The U.S. General who vowed "I shall return" before evacuating the Philippines for Australia General Douglas MacArthur
The general who surrendered the American forces on Corregidor island Jonathan Wainwright
The forced march of prisoners from Bataan, a war crime for which General Masaharu Homma was executed Bataan Death March
Britain's major base in the Far East that fell to the Japanese in February 1942 Singapore
The British battleship sunk by Japanese aircraft during the Malayan campaign Prince of Wales
The British general forced to surrender Singapore in 1942 Arthur Percival
The first naval battle fought entirely by aircraft, which prevented the Japanese from invading Port Moresby, New Guinea Battle of the Coral Sea
The American admiral who commanded the fleet at the Battle of the Coral Sea, damaging two Japanese carriers Frank Jack Fletcher
The American aircraft carrier lost at the Battle of the Coral Sea USS Lexington
The battle considered the turning point of WWII in the Pacific, where Americans had broken the Japanese naval code Battle of Midway
The U.S. Admiral who commanded the American fleet at the Battle of Midway Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
The American aircraft carrier lost at Midway USS Yorktown
The first Allied counteroffensive in the Pacific, targeting an island in the Solomons to secure communications with Australia Guadalcanal Campaign
The codename for the initial U.S. Marine landings on Guadalcanal Operation Watchtower
The major naval battle in world history that fulfilled MacArthur’s promise to return to the Philippines Battle of Leyte Gulf
The large Japanese battleship destroyed at the Battle of Leyte Gulf Musashi
The practice of suicidal attacks on Allied naval vessels that began after the Battle of Leyte Gulf Kamikaze attacks
The isolated volcanic island strategically important as a base for American air attacks on the Japanese home islands, site of a bloody battle Iwo Jima
The Japanese general who prolonged the Battle of Iwo Jima indefinitely by using elaborate systems of tunnels General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The U.S. Marine who took the famous photograph of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi Joe Rosenthal
The last major ground battle in the Pacific theater of WWII, known as Operation Iceberg Battle of Okinawa
The locations of the Japanese defenses on Okinawa Kakazu Ridge and Shuri Castle
The projected late-1945 conventional invasion of the Japanese home islands that was canceled due to heavy casualties at Okinawa Operation Downfall
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