Chapter 14 Extended Response Flashcards
*NEED TO COMPLETE!!! (5 points) Describe, in detail, the Bataan Death March.
-On the same day as Pearl Harbor’s attack, the Japanese attacked —American airfields in the Philippines
-MacArthur and his troops retreated to the Bataan Peninsula
-To avoid starvation, troops ate horses and mules and got diseases like malaria, scurvy, and dysentery
-MacArthur was evacuated to Australia, but 78,000 US soldiers were captured and forced to march 65 miles to a prison camp
-10,000 troops died
(4 points) Describe, in detail, Doolittle’s Raid.
-Roosevelt’s immediate response to Pearl Harbor would become known as Doolittle’s Raid
-The plan was to bomb Tokyo with planes taking off from aircraft carriers
-The raid was led by James Doolittle
-16 B-25 bombers were used, but they would not be able to land on the carriers, instead, they would have to land in China
-The raid was a success mainly in raising American morale
(4 points) Describe, in detail, the Battle of Midway.
-In response to Doolittle’s Raid, the Japanese decided to attack the Americans at Midway
-The Americans had broken the Japanese code and knew the attack was coming
-The Japanese lost 4 large carriers
-362 Americans died here along with over 3000 Japanese
-This was the turning point in the war in the Pacific
(4 points) What was agreed upon at the Tehran Conference?
-Russia would help attack France
-After the war, Roosevelt and Stalin would divide Germany
-Once Germany was defeated, Russia would help the US with Japan
-They would create an international peacekeeping organization after the war
*NEED TO COMPLETE!!! (6 points) Why was WWII a turning point in world history?
-Large areas of the world’s great powers were devastated
-Germany and Japan were occupied by foreign armies
-25 million people killed
-2/3 of European Jews were murdered
-The US became the world’s 1st superpower
-Russia would soon become the next superpower
