World War 2?

Question

My book isn't real good at explaining things. Can someone help me with these?

a. Britain liberated
b. First Japanese naval loss
c. German victory
d. MacArthur returned here
e. post-war plans
f. South Pacific Victory
g. Turning point on Eastern Front

1. Bataan____
2. Guadalcanal____
3. Leyte____
4. Midway____
5. Stalingrad____

Thanks!

Answer 1

1. e
2. f
3. d
4. b
5. g

-Christian

Answer 2

The Coral Sea, which predated Midway, proved a strategic defeat for the Japanese navy, though they won the tactical side of the battle. Midway. In fact the Coral Sea was more important strategically as a victory as it prevented Japan from taking New Guinea. Midway was important as the turning point in the Pacific.

Answer 3

First Japanese Naval Loss - Midway
MacArthur returned here - Bataan (I think)
South Pacific Victory - Guadalcanal
Turning point on Eastern front - Stalingrad

Answer 4

D. MacArthur- Allied forces under MacArthur's command landed at Leyte Island, on October 20, 1944, fulfilling MacArthur's vow to return to the Philippines.

F. South Pacfic Victory- The Battle of Midway was a pivotal naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It took place from June 4 to June 7, 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, about five months after the Japanese capture of Wake Island, and six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor that had led to a formal state of war between the United States and Japan. During the battle, the United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll (located northwest of Hawaii) and destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser while losing a carrier and a destroyer.

The battle was a crushing defeat for the Japanese and is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of World War II. The battle permanently weakened the Japanese Navy, particularly through the loss of over 200 naval aviators.[2] Strategically, the U.S. Navy was able to seize the initiative in the Pacific and go on the offensive.


G. Stalingrad- the city of Stalingrad became the center of the Battle of Stalingrad as well as the pivotal turning point in the war against Germany. The battle lasted from August 21, 1942 to February 2, 1943. In terms of loss of human life, 1.7 million to 2 million Axis and Soviet soldiers were either killed, wounded or captured, as well as over 50,000 civilians killed. The city was reduced to rubble during the fierce fighting, but reconstruction began soon after the Germans were expelled from the city.

Guadalcanal- Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore, Japanese forces advanced into the South Pacific occupying many islands in an attempt to build a defensive ring around their conquests and threaten the lines of communication between the United States and Australia/New Zealand reaching Guadalcanal in May 1942. When the allied forces spotted construction of an airfield on Guadacanal, the United States conducted the first amphibious landing of the conflict and one of the most hotly contested campaigns for control of the ground, sea and skies of the war. Guadalcanal became a major turning-point in the war as it stopped Japanese expansion and after four months forced the Japanese to cease trying to contest the control of the island and finally evacuate it in February 1943.

Early in the campaign, US ships would retire at night due to superior night fighting expertise of the Japanese. Immediately after landing on the island, the allies began making the airfield, named Henderson Field after a Marine aviator killed in combat during the Battle of Midway, operational and established what became known as the Cactus Air Force. Aircraft operating from Guadalcanal over the campaign were a hodge podge of Marine, Army, Navy and allied aircraft that defended the airfield and threatened any Japanese ships that ventured into the vicinity during the daylight hours. However, at night, Japanese battleships, cruisers and destroyers would venture within shelling range of the airfield on Guadacanal and shell it throughout the night and escape back up the Slot before daybreak when allied aircraft would regain air superiority. So many ships from both sides were sunk in the many engagements in and around the Solomon Island chain that the nearby waters were referred to as Ironbottom Sound. An informative account of the Marine Corps campaign, which began on August 7, 1942, can be found in the historical novel, "Every Shape, Every Shadow" (Pale Horse Books). Many other books and even movies have been written about the Guadalcanal campaign.


Bataan- The Battle of Bataan is famous in history as one of the last stands of American and Filipino soldiers before they were overwhelmed by the Japanese forces in World War II. The Bataan Death March was named for this province, where the infamous march started.

Good luck!

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