17.3 Flashcards
What did the Japanese miss in their attack on Pearl Harbor?
The Pacific Fleet’s submarine and the aircraft carriers
What did Japan do in the first 6th months
It conquered an empire that dwarfed Hitlers Third Reich. On the Asian mainland, Japanese got Hong Kong, French Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, and Much of China. They also got the Dutch East Indies, Guam, Wake ISalnd, the Solomon Islands and countless other outposts in the oceon
In the Phillippiense 80,000 American and Filipenos did what
Battled the Japanese for control
Who was the general at the time of the invasion?
General Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was in command of Allied forces on teh islands. When American and Filipino forces found themselves to the back of the wall on Bataan, MacArthur was ordered to leave. He left vowing what?
That he would return
What was Doolittle’s raid
In 1924, the Allies began to turn the tide against the Japanses. On April 18th, there was a daring raid on Tokyo and other Japanses cities. Leutenant Doolittle led 16 bombers inthe Attack
What was the Battle of the Coral Sea
Americans and AUstralians. IN May 1942, they succeeded in stopping the Japanese drive toward Australian territory in the 5 day battle of the Coral Sea. During the battle, most of the fighting was done by airplanes.
Japan next wanted to go to Midway, a strategic island near Hawaii. What Happened
Chester Nimitz the commander of the American naval forces in the Pacific moved to defend the island. on June 3d, his scout planes found the Japanese fleet. the americans sent torpedo planes and dive bombers to the attack. The Japanese were caught with their planes still on the decks of their carriers. The results were devastating.
When did the first Allied Offensive Begin>
In August 1942 when troops stormed in to Cuadalcanal
On October 1944, Allied troops converged on Leyte Island and who came
MacArthur
Kamikaze
Suicide plane attacks in which Japanese piolets crashed their bomb laden planes
In the Philippenes> How may jamakazie
424
How did Ameircans view these attacks.
With horor and pitty
What was teh Battle fo Leyte Gulf to Japan
A huge disaster
What happened in Iwo Jima
It was critical to the United States because it was equipped with bombers. 20,700 Japanese troops entrenched in tunnels andcaves, They had to dif them out and only 200 Japanese survived
