WWII War in the Pacific Crossword
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
 
 
Down: 1) American General in charge of the Pacific troops. He promised to "I shall return" to the Filipinos and did return at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.2) Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was detonated on August 6, 1945. 3) a strategy used during WWII that called for attacking and capturing key islands and using these islands as bases to leapfrog to others 5) The project was created by President Roosevelt with the goal of creating an atomic bomb before the Nazis. After two years, the bomb was tested in New Mexico. 8) Three days after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, a second bomb was dropped on this city and killed 40,000 people. Thousands more were injured and many died later from radiation. Across: 4) The allied troops surrendered to the Japanese in the Philippines in April of 1942. They were forced to march to a prison camp more than 60 miles away. An estimated 22,000 allied soldiers died on the march. 6) A statement issued by the allies stating that if Japan did not surrender, it faced "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese did not surrender and Truman ordered the use of the bomb. 7) During this allied victory, four Japanese aircraft carriers and hundreds of Japanese planes were destroyed. It was the first major Japanese defeat in the Pacific. 9) Japanese suicide pilots who crashed planes loaded with explosives into American ships. These pilots sank several destroyers during the battle for Okinawa. 10) The day the Japanese government agreed to surrender, August 15, 1945. The formal surrender was signed on the U.S.S Missouri.
 

 

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