Allied Victory in the Pacific

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Across
  1. 1. U.S. naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941
  2. 3. Because Japan wouldn’t surrender, the Allies were planning this as their final strategy to defeat Japan
  3. 5. This bloody battle resulted in the Allied bombers having a clear path to bomb Japan
  4. 9. General who commanded Allied forces in the Philippines
  5. 11. Japanese pilots specifically trained to carry out suicide attacks on Allied ships
  6. 17. Thousands of people who survived the atomic bomb blast died weeks later from this
  7. 19. The name given to the top secret program to develop the first atomic or nuclear weapon
  8. 21. He led the allied forces in the Pacific
  9. 23. Because the Japanese military forced many Japanese civilians to commit _____________ (two words), as many as 150 thousand people were killed before and during the Allied attack
  10. 24. City that was firebombed resulting in tens of thousands of civilian deaths
Down
  1. 2. Nuclear physicist who was director of the Los Alamos laboratory; known as the “father of the atomic bomb”
  2. 4. City where 80-100 thousand people were killed in one of the largest firebombing raids of WWII
  3. 6. This battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific because the Japanese navy was never able to carry out any major attacks against the Allied Pacific Fleet
  4. 7. This strategy allowed Allied forces to take islands closer to Japan to build air bases to attack Japan
  5. 8. This island was heavily defended by the Japanese army because it was very close to the main islands of Japan
  6. 10. City where the second atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, was dropped
  7. 12. City where the first atomic bomb was dropped that killed 90-166K people
  8. 13. First naval battle in history to be fought using planes; stopped the Japanese from invading Australia and New Zealand
  9. 14. Type of ship that was not in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked
  10. 15. Flamethrowers and bombs were used to get the Japanese to surrender who were hiding in these
  11. 16. Type of bomb used to start fires; used extensively during bombing raids on many Japanese cities
  12. 18. Gulf, Largest naval battle in world history and the last time battleships fought each other
  13. 20. Japanese admiral who planned and executed the attack on Hawaii
  14. 22. He believed that the atomic bomb was a military weapon and never doubted that it should be used