Japan Strikes The Pacific Flashcards
Political and military leader of Japan
Hideki Tojo
Spiritual and god like leader of Japan
Emperor Hirohito
Japanese naval strategist
Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese soldiers code of conduct-death before surrender
Bushido
Home of America’s pacific fleet
Pearl Harbor
FDR’s statement about attack on Pearl Harbor
A date which will live in infamy
Forced relocation of Japanese Americans to the interior of the U.S.
Japanese Internment
Japanese strategy for taking over European colonial lands
Asia for Asians
MacArthur’s statement to his troops before leaving the philippines
I shall return
Aerial bombing of Japanese cities after Pearl Harbor
Doolittle’s raid
Battle which stopped Japan’s southern expansion
Battle of the coral sea
Surprise attack on Japanese navy. Turned the tide of the war
Battle of midway
Commander of the allied ground forces in the pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Strategy of taking islands not heavily fortified by the Japanese
Island hopping
American victory in the first battle of the island hopping
Battle of Guadalcanal