The War in the Pacific

While the Americans were fighting in Europe the Japanese army ____________.
1. attacked the United States' western coast
2. was attacking the countries of Asia
3. was building specialized airplanes
4. took American outposts such as Corregidor in the Philippine Islands
The prisoners of war were _______________.
1. forced to go on long marches to prison camps
2. starved to death
3. hung for war crimes
The Americans set up a base in _____________. This was an island halfway between the United States and Japan.
1. Hawaii
2. Midway
3. Australia
By December 1944 General MacArthur took back ________________.
1. Indochina
2. Burma
3. the Philippines
4. Hong Kong
The Japanese began ____________________________.
1. using toxic gases to fight the Americans
2. purposely wrecking planes loaded with bombs into the American ships
3. fighting on American soil
On August 6, 1945 one B-29 flew over the city of Hiroshima, and __________________.
1. dropped the atomic bomb
2. dropped food for the citizens
3. crashed into the heart of the city
After Hiroshima the Japanese ____________________.
1. surrendered
2. would not surrender
On August 9 another atomic bomb was dropped on ____________________.
1. Nagasaki
2. Hiroshima
3. Kawasaki
4. Tokyo
The surrender papers were signed ______________________ on September 2, 1945. World War II was over.
1. in Berlin
2. in England
3. on board the USS Missouri