War in the Pacific

3. August 9, 1945.
4. Liberating island after island.
6. The peace treaty with Japan was signed on the deck of this ship.
9. After losing this battle, the Japanese began losing island after island.
12. The battle for this island was hard fought, few of the 18.000 Japanese soldiers stationed here survived.
13. Japan invaded this region in 1931, hoping to expand their empire.
15. The shortened term for soldiers captured during wartime
17. This project was responsible for the development of the A-bomb.
18. August 6, 1945.

1. A law passed by the U.S. to supply allied nations with weapons, whilst still remaining neutral in the war.
2. A prison for the confinement of people during wartime.
5. The Japanese often treated captured soldiers cruelly because they believed that to be captured was ...
7. Using forced labor, the construction of this piece of infrastructure was completed in 1943.
8. This method of attack was used during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes fly / crash into their target.
10. French Colonial name for the region which included present day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
11. A German submarine
14. The Japanese attack on this place led to the official U.S. involvement in WWII.
16. This battle was fought using airplanes