Chapter 5 WWII 2

Question 1

Battle of Guadalacanal

Answer 1

Japan 1st defeat on land

Question 2

Battle of the Coral Sea

Answer 2

1st Naval battle was fought strictly by airplanes

Question 3

Battle of Okinawa

Answer 3

Japanese desperation showed American planters that any attempt to invade Japan would result in extreme casualties

Question 4

Bataan Death March

Answer 4

Because Japan viewed surrender and dishonorable and treated American prisoners with extreme cruelty

Question 5

Doolittle Raid

Answer 5

1st strike against Japan after Pearl Harbor

Question 6

Operation Torch

Answer 6

Allied invasion of North Africa

Question 7

Island hopping

Answer 7

U.S Naval strategy moving across the Pacific to get close enough to Japan to invade

Question 8

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 8

He was the head of all Allied Land forces in the Pacific

Question 9

Harry Truman

Answer 9

The U.S president after Roosevelt’s death.

He made the decision to drop the bomb

Question 10

Winston Churchill

Answer 10

Wartime Prime Minister of England

Question 11

Isoroku Yamamoto

Answer 11

He planned Japanese Naval strategy including the attack on Pearl Harbor