WWII Pacific Key terms

ABCD line

series of embargoes on Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch

B-29 Superfortress

US heavy bomber

1942 Bataan death march

japan marched 78000 US and Filipino prisoners up the east coast of bataan

1942 bombing of darwin

japanese air attack on Australian port

burma railway

japanese railway connecting Thailand and Burma, built by forced labor

burma road

japanese road connecting Burma and china, built by forced labor

doolittle raid 1942

initial retaliation of the US to the attack on pearl harbor by airstrike

double V campaign

national effort to fight against racism in America while fighting abroad

executive order 9066

FDR order for Japanese internment

1942 firebombing of tokyo

tokyo bombed by US in a series of raids

hibakusha

survivors of the atomic bombs

1945 interim committee

committee established by president truman to make recommendations on nuclear energy during the war

island hopping 1942

the US was able to recover Pacific island territory by having military superiority in air and sea

kamikaze

special Japanese forces that were suicide bombers, allowing them to sink 25 US ships

manhatten project

US Collab with Canada and UK to develop the first nuclear weapons

manzanar/Japanese internment camps

potsdam declaration

statement calling for Japanese surrender during WWII

three alls policy

japane scorched earth policy in China: kill all, burn all, loot all

tokyo rose

nickname given by the allies to the japanese propaganda radio women

treaty of San francisco 1952

ended japan’s role as an imperial power, gave compensation to allies and prisoners, and ended allied occupation

tripartite pact

military alliance forming the axis powers between Germany, Japan, italy

unit 731

secret Japanese research facility using human experimentation to develop biological warfare

USS indianapolis

US heavy cruiser sunk by Japanese submarine after delivering parts of the Hiroshima bomb

WAAC

us women’s army branch

yamato damashii

traditional and cultural values of japan