War In The Pacific Theater 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 Eleanor M. Savko In The 2/5/2019 Pacific Theater 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 Directions: JEOPARDY GAME Great! I have the blank jeopardy file. Now, how do I create my own jeopardy game using this blank format. The hard part has been done for you--you have the easy part! Before we begin, you will need to download the Blank Jeopardy game from the web site. Open it by clicking on it. Go to File, Save As, Save it to your Desktop or to a flash drive. Presuming that you have saved it to a flash drive. . . 1. The flash drive is in connected. 2. Open PowerPoint and click in the radial button, open an existing presentation. 3. Click on the down arrow by "Look in" and choose flash drive. 4. Choose Blank Jeopardy and click on Open. 5. Decide on your categories at the top. You need 5 categories. 6. If you want to change the color of the font, highlight the category, click on the font color button's down arrow and choose the color of your choice. 7. Double click in the first blank category and begin typing your first category. Continue to do this for all five categories. Click on File, Save As to save your work. You will want to give it a name, e.g. Science ch. 5 review. This will leave your "blank jeopardy file", blank for you to create other games. 8. Go to the lower left hand corner and choose the Slide Sorter View. 9. Choose the second slide and double click on it. 10. If you do not have the DRAW toolbar at the bottom of your screen, go to VIEW, Toolbars, and click on Drawing. You should now see the Draw toolbar. 11. Click on the Text button. Click again to position the text box on your slide toward the top and in the middle. 12. Begin typing your first answer. 13. Double Click on slide 3, repeat step 11 and type your question. Remember the format of Jeopardy. The answer is in the form of a question. 14. Periodically, save your work by clicking on the little diskette in your menu bar. 15. Each slide is in order, going down the category e.g.: First category on the far left for 1 point is slide number 2 and 3. First category for 2 points is slide number 4 and 5 etc. 16. If you want to include two "daily doubles", just change the color of the question and answer to yellow. We included two daily doubles because we play with two teams and would like each team to have the opportunity to score a daily double. But as you know, it doesn't always work out that way! 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500
He was the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Theater during WWII
General Douglas MacArthur
As the US began to close in on the Japanese homeland in October of 1944, the Japanese began using these to ensure their bombs would not miss
Kamikazes
He led a morale-boosting raid on Tokyo just five months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
James Dolittle
Eleanor M. Savko 2/5/2019 Named after Captain Paul Tibbetts' mother, this B-29 delivered the first atomic bomb to Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945
Enola Gay
After intercepting and decoding a secret Japanese naval message prior to this battle, the US used the intelligence to decimate a good portion of the Japanese navy. The US also went on the offensive for good after this battle.
Battle of Midway Atoll
During WWII, 429 members of this tribe used their language to create a code that the Japanese were never able to decipher
Navajo
Although they were used only for a brief period near the end of the war, Japanese suicide pilots were responsible for the deaths of about how many American seamen?
About 5,000
Around 10,000 of the 78,000 US and Filipino soldiers who, unwillingly, participated in this ruthless 65 mile journey never made it to Camp O’Donnell
Bataan Death March
At this conference, in Germany, Truman tells Stalin the US has successfully detonated an atomic weapon. He also gives the Japanese one final chance to surrender.
Potsdam Conference
This was the largest battle in naval history This was the largest battle in naval history. It was also the first battle where Japanese suicide pilots were used
Battle of Leyte Gulf
He signed a letter to President Roosevelt regarding the possibility of creating an atomic weapon. He regretted this later in life.
Albert Einstein
Pima Native American and WWII hero of Iwo Jima who appears in the famous flag raising photo atop Mt. Suribachi
Ira Hayes
The plutonium based atomic bomb used against the city of Nagasaki was named this
Fat Man
Although the Japanese had surrendered by August 15th, 1945, the official final terms of peace were signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on this date
September 2nd, 1945
This was an early, combined, US and Australian victory which prevented the Japanese from capturing Australia. This was also the first battle in naval history where the ships on both sides never engaged each other directly.
Battle of the Coral Sea
This strategy, which was employed by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, involved moving US forces from island to island throughout the Pacific in an effort to proceed closer to the Japanese mainland
“Island Hopping”
The name of the US’s ultra-secret plan to create an atomic weapon was this
the Manhattan Project
The uranium based atomic bomb delivered to Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 was named this
Little Boy
This war strategy was employed by the Allies in both theaters of conflict. It involves using your advantage of supplies (weapons) and resources (people) to wear down the enemy until they lose their will, or ablity, to fight
“War of Attrition”
Although the casualty rate was about 33% for US forces at this battle, they were able to knock out Japan’s last line of radar defense, meaning Japan could no longer detect US bombing raids on their homeland.
Battle of Iwo Jima
Approximately 100,000 Japanese people were killed in one night as a result of the US’s incendiary bombing of this Japanese capital city
Tokyo
He is considered to be the physicist, and brains, behind the creation of the world’s first atomic weapon
J. Robert Oppenheimer
To this day, he is the only person to have ever authorized the use of a nuclear weapon against a human population.
Harry S. Truman
Named after its pilot, this B-29 “transported” the second atomic bomb to Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945
Bockscar
This bloody six month campaign in the Solomon Islands helped gain the US a toe-hold in the Pacific. The US also begins to employ its strategy of “Island Hopping” here
Guadalcanal