Questions:

1. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, 1,103 American sailors were killed when they
were entombed aboard what U.S. ship?

2. The U.S. was fortunate that what type of ship was not in Pearl Harbor during
the attack?

3. By breaking this, the U.S. was aware that the Japanese intended to attack Midway:

4. Why was the Battle of Okinawa considered the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War?

5. Explain the contributions of Enrico Fermi regarding the Manhattan Project:

6. Why were the Japanese reluctant to surrender during the final weeks of World War II?

1: USS Arizona, in full United States Ship (USS) Arizona, U.S. battleship that sank during the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu island, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. More than 1,170 crewmen were killed. The Arizona is commemorated by a concrete memorial that spans the wreckage.

2: A further important disadvantage was the absence from Pearl Harbor of all three of the U.S. Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers (Enterprise, Lexington, and Saratoga). IJN top command was attached to Admiral Mahan's "decisive battle" doctrine, especially that of destroying the maximum number of battleships.

3: Hoping to replicate the success of the Pearl Harbor attack, Yamamoto decided to seek out and crush the rest of the U.S. Pacific fleet with a surprise attack aimed at the Allied base at Midway Island.

4: Okinawa became the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 Japanese died, a frightening number matched only by the tally of unfortunate Okinawan citizens who perished in the fighting. Army casualties of more than 4,600 dead and 18,000 wounded were almost equaled by 3,200 Marines dead and 13,700 wounded.May 3, 2000

5: He emigrated to the United States, where he worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Fermi led the team that designed and built Chicago Pile-1, which went critical on 2 December 1942, demonstrating the first human-created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

6: After the Hiroshima attack, a faction of Japan's supreme war council favored acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, but the majority resisted unconditional surrender.