Homework Check 12.2

Match the following

• Doolittle

• The ____________________ Raid convinced Japanese leaders to change their strategy and to attack Midway Island, the farthest American base in the Pacific west of Hawaii.

• Bataan

• Fought in June 1942, the Battle of ____________________ was a turning point in the war that stopped the Japanese advance in the Pacific.

• Midway

• American naval attacks in the Coral Sea prevented the Japanese from landing on ____________________ and kept the American supply lines to Australia open.

• New Guinea

• American troops on the ____________________ Peninsula surrendered in April 1942, and although a small force held out on the island of Corregidor in Manila Bay until May, the Philippines fell to the Japanese.

On April 18, 1942, American bombs fell on Japan for the first time when American aircraft carriers' usual short-range bombers were replaced with

• code breakers.

• radio transmitters.

• paratroopers.

• B-25 bombers.

Why were the Japanese unable to decipher the messages of the Navajo code talkers?

• The code talkers used a mathematical code based on the Navajo numeric system.

• The code talkers had an advanced code machine that was an early computer.

• The code talkers used the Navajo language, which had no written alphabet.

• The code talkers used a code that consisted of a series of whistle like noises.

A key to the American success at the Battle of Midway was

• breaking the Japanese navy's secret code.

• the use of new sonar and radar technology

• the superior capabilities of American submarines.

• the use of long-range B-25 bombers.

One part of the American plan for the defeat of Japan called for General Douglas Mac Aruthur's troops to advance through the Solomon Islands, capture the north coast of New Guinea, and then retake

• Indonesia.

• Manchuria.

• the Philippines.

• Australia.