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Question 1

Bataan Death March

Answer 1

More than 70,000 Filipino American troops surrendered to the Japanese in the Philippines. The troops were taken to a prison camp to be killed.

Question 2

General Douglas MacArthur

Answer 2

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Question 3

Battle of Midway

Answer 3

June 1942. U.S. victory over Japanese off Midway Island that proved to be the turning point of the war.

Question 4

island hopping

Answer 4

Allied strategy in Pacific of invading selected islands, and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan.

Question 5

Guadalcanal

Answer 5

First U.S. land victory over the Japanese.

Question 6

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Answer 6

The U.S. took over these islands in order to bomb Japan.

Question 7

Manhattan Project

Answer 7

Top-secret government project to develop the atomic bomb.

Question 8

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 8

He helped create the atomic bomb.

Question 9

Enola Gay

Answer 9

The first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb.

Question 10

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 10

August 6, 1945. The two Japanese cities that were each hit with an atomic bomb.

Question 11

Code Talkers

Answer 11

Navajo Indians recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to transmit messages in the Navajo language.

Question 12

kamikaze

Answer 12

Japanese suicide pilot.