Download WAR IN THE PACIFIC Use pages 578-587 to answer the following

WAR IN THE PACIFIC
Use pages 578-587 to answer the following
questions:
A) How extensive were the Japanese conquests?
B) What American actions surprised the
Japanese?
C) What was the importance of the Battle of
Midway?
D) What strategy did the United States adopt in
fighting Japan?
E) What were kamikazes?
F) Why did the Japanese fight so hard on Iwo
Jima?
G) Why did the Allies believe Okinawa was a
foretaste of an invasion of Japan?
H) What was the Manhattan Project?
I) How did the scientists view using the atomic
bomb?
J) When was the atomic bomb used?
K) How did the battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa
influence the decision to use the bomb against
Japan?
L) What reasons did opponents of using the
atomic bomb offer to Secretary Stinson?
M) What plans for peacekeeping did the United
States make near the end of the war?
N) What did the United States do with the
surviving leaders of Germany and Japan?
O) What happened to Japan after the war ended?