Pearl harbor to firebombing

Question 1

Pearl Harbor Dec. 7th 1941

Answer 1

Shakes US out of isolationism and rallies support for entry into the war

Question 2

Feb 19th 1942- Intenment camps

Answer 2

Internment of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast only into ten internment camps in the US for national security and their own personal safety

Question 3

April 18th 1942 Doolittle raid

Answer 3

First raid on tokyo

Question 4

May 1942 Bataan death march

Answer 4

When Japanese forced captured Allied soldiers (filipinos and AMericans) to march about 80 miles across Bataan peninsula 54,000 out of 70,000 survive

Question 5

Summer 1942 Japan control

Answer 5

Japan controlled Philippines, Malaya, Burma, East Indies and had the cooperation of Indochina and Thailand

Question 6

1942 May Battle of the Coral sea

Answer 6

Naval battle between US and Japan

Question 7

1942 Battle of Midway

Answer 7

Naval battle, US wins, turning point

Japan loses four aircraft carriers after the Us breaks the Japanese code and sends false information regarding water supply on Midway Island luring Japan into a trap

Question 8

June 1942-January 1945: Allies and Japanese are locked into battles of “island hopping”

Answer 8

they race towards Tokyo and main lands. Battle for Guadacanal lasted nearly seven months.

Japanese lost 2/3 of their troops before abandoning the “island of death”

Question 9

Japanese and propoganda

Answer 9

Japan tightens propganda controls on information at home and scarcities in all good developed and pushed people to continue to observe traditional values, their divine emperor and the soldier fighting for them .

Question 10

Japanese actions

Answer 10

• Brutal treatment of prisoners of war
• Use of comfort women
• indoctrination of Japanese soldiers to die rather than surrender
• all fed the horrible acts commited in the Pacific theatre
• laid groundwork for the desperate policy of suicide bombers (kamikaze)

Question 11

Firebombing of Japanese cities

Answer 11

• Led by air force general, LeMay
• Mass destruction of cities and thousands of civilians slaughtered
• use of B-29 bombers and new incendiary bombs: spewed burning gelatinized gasoline that stuck to its targets and inextinguishable
• City made out of wood so easily burnable