WW11 Section 4 Vocab.

Question 0

Where more than 600 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos were starved and beaten by Japanese soldiers

Answer 0

Bataan Death March

Question 1

Commanded the American and Filipino forces in the Philippines

Answer 1

Douglas MacArthur

Question 2

Admiral who led the U.S. Pacific Fleet

Answer 2

Chester Nimitz

Question 3

Conflict in which American and Japanese aircraft carriers and fighter planes clashed but neither side won a clear victory

Answer 3

Battle of the Coral Sea

Question 4

Began on June 4, 1942 when U.S. aircraft carriers launch their attack on Japanese planes while they were refueling on deck

Answer 4

Battle of Midway

Question 5

Strategy to capture only the most important islands

Answer 5

Island-hopping

Question 6

The largest naval battle in history

Answer 6

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question 7

Conflict in which Japanese soldiers were dug into caves and resulted in thousands of deaths for Japanese and U.S. forces

Answer 7

Iwo Jima

Question 8

Island where over 100,000 Japanese soldiers were when some of the deadliest battles of the war in the Pacific occurred

Answer 8

Okinawa

Question 9

Japanese strategy to purposely crash piloted planes into enemy ships

Answer 9

Kamikaze