7.7 WWII WAR IN ASIA AND PACIFIC

MARCH 1942, THE JAPANESE CAPTURED THE PHILIPPINES, PRISIONERS WERE TAKEN AND FORCES TO MARCH 60 MILES UNDER BRUTAL CONDITIONS. THOUSANDS DIED ALONG THE WAY. THIS MANEUVER WAS KNOWN AS _______ _____ _____

• MARCH OF DEATH

• MARCH OF THE PHILIPPINES

• CONCENTRATION CAMPS

• BATAAN DEATH MARCH

UNITED STATES RE-ESTABISHED NAVAL SUPERIORITY IN 1943, LIBERATING PACIFIC ISLANDS FROM JAPANESE CONTROL. THIS WAS TERMED AS _____ _______

• NAVAL RE-ENHANCEMENT

• ISLAND HOPPING

• JUMPING SHIP

• JAPANESE SABOTAGE

PLAYING A KEY ROLE IN THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN WERE A GROUP OF _______ _______ USED TO SEND UNDECIPHERABLE COMMUNICATIONS TO U.S. TROOPS TO AVOID JAPANESE INTERCEPTION. THIS GROUP WAS CALLED _____?++++

• GENERALS/

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• TRAINED IT SOLDIERS/

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• NATIVE AMERICANS/

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• AFRICAN AMERICANS /CODE TALKERS

WHAT WAS THE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC?

• BATTLE OF BATAAN

• BATTLE OF MIDWAY

• BATTLE OF THE BULGE

• BATTLE OF ARGONNE FOREST

BELIEVING THE JAPANESE COULD DESTROY THE AMERICAN FLEET IN THE PACIFIC, THEY DEVISED A PLAN TO LURE U.S. TO MIDWAY ISLAND...THE U.S. NAVY BROKE THE SECRET CODE AND INSTITUTED AN ATTACK LED BY ______ ______ _____, HALTING JAPAN'S ADVANCE IN THE PACIFIC

• ADM. CHESTER NIMITZ

• GEN. DWIGHT EISENHOWER

• GEN. GEORGE PATTON

• GEN. OMAR BARDLEY

GENERAL _____ _____, U.S. ARMY COMMANDER, TOOK IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA WHERE THE U.S. USED AS BASED TO LAUNCH MANY ATTACKS AGAINST JAPAN. TODAY THERE IS A MONUMENT DEPICTING THE PLANTING OF THE FLAG ON OKINAWA.

• CHESTER NIMITZ

• OMAR BRADLEY

• DOUGLAS MacARTHRU

• DWIGHT EISENHOWER

_______ ____ ____, CHIEF OF STAFF FOR FDR, URGED ROOSEVELT TO PREPARE THE MILITARY FOR WAR AND TO BUILD UP 8MILLION MEN TO OVERSEE THE CREATION OF ___ ______ ____

• GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL/

  ATOMIC BOMB

• GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER/ ATOMIC BOMB

• PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN/

  ATOMIC BOMB

• ADM. CHESTER A. NIMITZ,

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