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After the United States restricted the sale of oil to Japan in 1941, where was their only remaining possible source of supply?
The Dutch East Indies
Saudi Arabia
China
Australia
Hawaii
What important targets were missed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor?
Oil depots, repair yards and the U.S. aircraft carriers.
U.S. aircraft on the ground.
The row of U.S. Battleships.
The USS Arizona and the USS Nevada.
The USS Oklahoma and USS California.
What were Admiral Nimitz's orders at the start of the Pacific War?
To hold the line against any further Japanese advance.
To find and defeat the Japanese Navy at sea.
To conduct air strikes against mainland Japan.
To conduct amphibious landings against the home islands of Japan.
To lure the Japanese into a trap near Midway Island.
What was the name of the war plan for the Pacific War that had been developed and refined at the Naval War College?
War Plan Orange
Tora, Tora, Tora
Operation Torch
Operation Anvil
Operation Anvil
What naval battle on 29 February 1942 all but eliminated the Allied ABDA force?
The battle of the Java Sea.
The battle of Midway
The battle of the Coral Sea
The battle of Savo Island
The battle of Rabaul
What Pacific Island did Japan turn in to its own version of "pearl harbor"?
Truk
Rabaul
Kavieng
Guam
Midway
Early in World War II, where was there a gap in the Japanese defense perimeter?
Midway Island
Guam
Okinawa
Wake Island
The Kurile Islands
What was the name of the U.S. bomber raid on Tokyo in April, 1942?
The Doolittle Raid
The Tokyo Express
The Tokyo Express
The Hornet Raid
The Halsey Raid
How did Nimitz know about Japanese intentions at the Battle of Midway?
The U.S. had broken the Japanese cipher codes.
The U.S. had a spy in the higher circles of Japanese Naval planning.
The U.S. had discovered the plan while interrogating Japanese survivors of the battle of the Coral Sea.
The U.S. had recovered Top Secret Japanese documents which told of the attack plan.
A high-ranking Japanese defector gave the battle plans to the Americans.
Why is the Battle of Midway regarded as the turning point of the Pacific War?
Because of the Japanese loss of 4 Carriers and many of its combat-experienced pilots.
Because the loss of Midway to the Japanese closed the last remaining gap in the Japanese line.
Because battleships would once again rule the seas.
Because the Japanese never again could put a major Fleet to sea.
Because from this point on the Japanese would never score a victory over U.S. forces.
On what island in the Solomons did the Japanese and Allied forces converge to determine the outcome in the southwestern Pacific?
Guadalcanal
Truk
Iwo Jima
Guam
Midway
What name was given to the Japanese operations that attempted to reinforce Guadalcanal?
The Tokyo Express
The Hirohito Express
Divine Wind
The Slot Convoy
The Ironbottom Sound 500
Which American home islands were retaken by U.S. forces in the summer of 1943?
The Aleutian Islands
The Marshall Islands
The Gilbert Islands
The Hawaiian Islands
The Caroline Islands
What was the fundamental difference between the submarine wars in the Atlantic and the Pacific?
The Japanese were slow to develop antisubmarine tactics.
There wasn't much merchant shipping to go after in the Pacific.
Neither side made use of submarines in the Pacific.
The wolf-pack tactic was never used in the Pacific.
Submarines had to dive deeper in the Pacific since it is a deeper ocean.
What central Pacific island was the target of one of the greatest military efforts in history in June 1944?
Saipan
Guadalcanal
Truk
Rabaul
Iwo Jima
What was the principal effect of the Japanese defeat in the Battle of the Philippine Sea?
The Marianas Islands invasion was able to continue unopposed.
The Japanese never again opposed the U.S. Navy on the seas.
The Japanese lost their last aircraft carriers.
The U.S. bought time to consolidate its defensive position.
It meant that the Japanese troops on Saipan would surrender without a fight.
What was the new Japanese defense strategy put into effect on Peleliu in late 1944?
Defense in depth, away from the beaches.
To mass all available defenders on the beaches to oppose the initial landings.
To sneak off the island at night and do a counterlanding against the Americans.
To counterattack the main landing with an Banzai charge.
To fight to the last man, never giving an inch.
Why was it necessary for Allied forces to secure Iwo Jima?
To stop Japanese fighters based there and to have an emergency base for crippled U.S. bombers returning from Japan.
To put the last major Japanese naval base out of action.
To prevent a Japanese sneak attack out of this island.
To prevent long-range Japanese bombers from hitting U.S. forces in Okinawa.
To demonstrate that no Japanese Island was safe from attack.
Why did the Japanese mount a fanatical defense of the island of Okinawa?
The Japanese troops on Okinawa knew that they were the last obstacle to an Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Because this was the home of the Emperor.
Because the last of Japan's war materials were located on Okinawa.
Because Okinawa was the religious center of Japan.
Because it was thought that a victory here would win the war for Japan.
To what neutral country did the Japanese make their initial "peace feelers" to end the Pacific War?
The Soviet Union
The French
The British
The Australians
The Canadians
When and where did the Japanese sign the surrender document?
2 September 1945 in Tokyo Bay.
20 August, 1945 onboard the USS Missouri.
20 August, 1945 in Nagasaki.
2 September, 1945 in Nagasaki.
15 September, 1945 in Tokyo Bay.
Who commanded the allied naval forces known as the ABDA defense command?
Admiral Doorman
Admiral Nimitz
Admiral King
Admiral Halsey
Admiral Fletcher
Who took over as the U.S. Pacific Fleet's Commander in chief after the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor?
Admiral Nimitz
Admiral King
Admiral Doorman
Admiral Halsey
Admiral Macarthur
What U.S. military leader spoke the famous words "I shall return!"
General MacArthur
Admiral Nimitz
Vice Admiral Halsey
Rear Admiral Fletcher
Admiral King
Which U.S. aircraft carrier launched Army B-25's in a raid on Tokyo early in World War II?
The USS Hornet
The USS Nimitz
The USS Lexington
The USS Saratoga
The USS Wasp
Which U.S. aircraft carrier sank as a result of damage inflicted by the Japanese at the battle of the Coral Sea?
The USS Lexington
The USS Yorktown
The USS Hornet
The USS Wasp
The USS Guadalcanal
Which naval battle in the Pacific marked the first time the Japanese advance had been turned back?
Coral Sea
Midway
Pearl Harbor
Java Sea
Leyte Gulf
What is considered to have been the first action of the battle of Midway?
The diversionary attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
The Japanese air attack on Pearl harbor.
The Japanese sinking of the USS Lexington.
The Japanese attack on the airfield at Midway island.
The sinking of the USS Yorktown.
How many aircraft carriers were lost during the battle of Midway?
The Japanese lost 4 and the U.S. lost 1.
The U.S. lost 3 and the Japanese lost 2.
The Japanese lost 2 and the U.S. lost 2.
The Japanese lost 3 and the U.S. lost 1.
The Japanese lost 4 and the U.S. did not lose any.
What Japanese military leader was killed by American long-range fighters over Ballale Island in April of 1943?
Admiral Yamamoto
Admiral Ozawa
Admiral Nagumo
Admiral Toyoda
Admiral Nimitz
Which amphibious landing cost the U.S. Marines the highest combat casualty rate of any amphibious assault in American history?
Peleliu
Morotai
Iwo Jima
Guadalcanal
Saipan
Approximately how many Japanese troops were stationed on Iwo Jima island?
23,000
50,000
10,000
15,000
15,000
How many major naval battles made up the overall battles for Leyte Gulf?
Four
Three
Two
Five
Six
Who made the famous statement concerning the fighting on Iwo Jima that "...uncommon valor was a common virtue."?
Admiral Nimitz
General MacArthur
President Roosevelt
Admiral King
General Tojo
In which battle, for the first time in the Pacific war, did the casualty rate among the U.S. assault forces exceed those of the Japanese defenders?
Iwo Jima
Saipan
Guadalcanal
Morotai
Okinawa
What was the last significant amphibious assault in the Pacific during World War II?
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Guadalcanal
Morotai
Saipan
Approximately how many aircraft were lost by the Japanese during the battle for Okinawa?
7,000
500
1,500
2,700
4,200
What was the code name given the proposed invasion of the Japanese home islands?
Operation Downfall
Operation Orange
Operation Overlord
Operation Avalanche
Operation Setting Sun
Which two Japanese cities were destroyed by atomic bombs?
Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Hiroshima and Tokyo.
Tokyo and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima and Kyoto.
Kyoto and Nagasaki.
What one condition did Japan insist on before they would surrender to the Allies at the end of World War II?
That the imperial system and the Emperor be allowed to remain.
That the Japanese keep control of Okinawa.
That the Japanese Navy not be taken over by the Allies.
That there would be no war crime trials after the war.
That the Kurile Islands not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union.
What battle was considered the worst defeat ever suffered in battle by the U.S. Navy?
Savo Island
Midway Island
Coral Sea
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
What countries made up the ABDA defense alliance?
America, Britain, the Dutch and the Australians.
Australia, Britain, the Dutch and the Russians.
America, Borneo, the Dutch and the Australians.
America, Britain, the Dutch and the Chinese.
Australia, Britain, France and America.
What battle was the first great combat of the Pacific War between carrier forces?
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of the Java Sea
In what battle did kamikazes first appear?
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Java Sea
The Battle of Savo Island
Where did the Japanese land forces in Alaska during World War II?