Japan

Question 1

Hiroshima

Answer 1

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

Question 2

Nagasaki

Answer 2

Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945).

Question 3

Battle of Midway

Answer 3

1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific.

Question 4

Battle of Guadalcanal

Answer 4

World War II battle in the Pacific; it represented the first Allied counter-attack against Japanese forces; Allied victory forced Japanese forces to abandon the island.

Question 5

Battle of Coral Sea

Answer 5

A battle between Japanese and American naval forces that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.

Question 6

Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

Base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, which brought America to enter the war.

Question 7

Kamikaze

Answer 7

Japanese SUICIDE PIOLTS who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.

Question 8

James H. Doolittle

Answer 8

An American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as a general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War, after first earning the Medal of Honor as commander of the Doolittle Raid while a lieutenant colonel; bombing Japan.

Question 9

Anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 9

Treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against communism.

Question 10

James H. Doolittle

Answer 10

An American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as a general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War, after first earning the Medal of Honor as commander of the Doolittle Raid while a lieutenant colonel; bombing Japan.

Question 11

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 11

U.S. general. Commander of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he accepted Japan’s surrender in 1945. He promised to return to the Philippines after Japan conquered the Philippines in World War II.