WW2 - Pacific Theatre

In 1931, the Empire of Japan invades

• Manchuria

• China

• Singapore

• Korea

A sneak attack at Pearl Harbor on...

• 13 Jan 1941

• 7 Dec 1931

• 7 Dec 1941

• 1 Sep 1939

December 8th, 1941, the Japanese attack the American forces in the Philippine Islands and British territories of

• Manchuria

• Hong Kong and Singapore

• Papua New Guinea

• Guam

By May of 1942, the Japanese have reached the __________ Sea, American ships are waiting for them

• Black

• Pacific

• Coral

• Deep Blue

June of 1942, Battle of Midway, US Navy sinks.....

• 10 Japanese aircraft carriers and 8 battleships, clearly winning the battle and turning the tide on the Japanese

• none of the Japanese ships and is pushed back to Hawaii

• 13 Japanese battle ships but still loses the Battle of Midway

• four Japanese aircraft carriers, scoring a clear victory The Japanese begin losing ground.

In order to defeat Japan, American forces will have to wage a long campaign of.......

• air battles over the skies of Japan

• land battles over mainland Japan and China

• island hopping, slowly taking back islands

• Naval battles and nuclear bombing

The 1st Marine Division lands on Guadalcanal on....

• Aug 7th 1942

• Aug 7th 1945

• Aug 7th 1939

• Aug 7th 1940

In February of 1945, 30,000 U. S. Marines land in one day on the tiny island of _________ putting them in bombing range of Japan.

• Singapore

• Iwo Jima

• Papua New Guinea

• Tasmania

In April of 1945, more than ________________ Americans land on the island of Okinawa

• 1 million

• 1800

• 180,000

• 240,000

American bombing raids have heavily damaged the home island of Japan, but Japan is ___________ to surrender and prepares to _____________________.

• about, meet with President Truman

• unwilling, fight to the very end

• ready, evacuate the whole country

• unwilling, bomb American naval bases in Hawaii