- __________ was the Japanese practice of purposely crashing piloted planes into military ships
- The Bataan Death March occurred in the Philippines after it had been taken over by Japan. More than 600 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos died and countless others were______________
- Hitler and the Nazi's kept jews locked in _________ during the war
- at the Battle of Midway, U.S. aircraft carriers launched an attack on Japanese planes while they were refueling, and they _______________
- Allied war planes developed a strategy called __________ where Allied forces took only the most strategically important island instead of every Japanese held island using each captured island as a base for their next attack
- the secret program to develop the atomic bomb was known as the __________
- many of the secrets and horrors of the Holocaust were not known to the rest of of the world until after ____________
- Allied forces dropped atomic bombs on ______________and _____________
- Chester Nimitz was an admiral who led the U.S. fleet in the Pacific . by being able_________________ Nimitz was able to get ahead of the Japanese and cut off their advancements
- Hitlers "final solution" was __________ , or the extermination of an entire group of people
- the Allied invasion of France, known as _________ was the largest sea-to-land invasion ever attempted
- the______________ was the largest naval battle in the history. it occurred while the Allied were trying to reclaim the Phillipines
- President Roosevelt died in office prior to the end of the war. ____________ was president when the war finally came to a end.
- with the surrender of Germany, the Allies gained victory in Europe on what became known as _______________
- by the end of D-day , all 5 beaches were secured and the __________ continued to march through France reclaiming it a little at a time.
- in Europe fierce fighting with the Germans continued. in the final months of the war Allied bombing raids devasted many___________
- _________________ commanded the American and Filipino forces in the Philippines
- Allied victories at Midway and Guadalcanal changed the course of the war in the pacific allowing Allies to __________________
- with most islands secured , the Allied forces were were able to target the Japanese mainland. __________ and _____________were the site of two of the wars fiercest battles in which the Allied forces came out victorious
- the Allied forces first step toward the goal of liberating Europe and forcing Hitler to surrender was to ___________