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20 Cards in this Set
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Philippines
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Japanese bombers struck American Airfields here on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Wake and Guam
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Were key American bases in the Pacific.
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Douglas MacArthur
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This General was forced to retreat to the rugged Bataan peninsula west of Manila and the small island of Corregidor.
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Bataan Death March
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On this March 76,000 prisoners started out but only about 54,000 survived.
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Tokyo
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On April 16, American bombers, launched from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific and bombed________.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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was a strategic victory because it halted the Japanese advance on Australia.
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Battle of Midway
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this battle was Northwest of Hawaii the navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft cairriers and hundreds of airplanes.
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Chester Nimitz
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adopted the strategy called island hopping.
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island hopping
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a strategy used that called for attacking and capturing certain key islands and using these islands as bases to leapfrog to others.
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Guadalcanal
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American forces engaged in one of the most vicious campaigns of the war foe control of the__________.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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In Oct. American ships destroyed most of the Japanese fleet at this battle and was the biggest navel battle in history.
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Iwo Jima
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In March 1945, American Forces seized this island.
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Okinawa
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After the Americans seizes Iwo Jima they seized this island.
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Kamikazes
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Known as corps of suicide they crashed planes filled with explosives.
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Albert Einstein
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had written the president that the Nazi's might try to use the energy of the atom to build a "EXTREMELY POWERFUL BOMB".
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Manhattan Project
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Roosevelt created this top secret operation know as the ________.
*they created the atomic bomb *tested it in New Mexico |
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Potsdam Declaration
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issued this to warn that if japan did not surrender it faced prompt utter destruction.
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Hiroshima
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The first bomb was dropped here on August 6, 1945 and the plane was called the Enloa Gay.
*70,000 people killed |
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Nagasaki
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Three days after the first atomic bomb, the next bomb was dropped here.
*40,000 people killed |
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V-J Day
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August 15, 1945, was proclaimed this day for Victory of Japan.
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