Island Hopping & the Next Steps Worksheet
1. Why was Island hopping the strategy taken in the Pacific?
2. What was unique about Guadalcanal? Explain the role of the Navy at
Guadalcanal.
3. What does the term Iron Bottom Sound Refer to?
4. Who was the 1st Marine Division? Why are they often called the OLD
BREED?
5. Why was Henderson Field such a strategic necessity? Where did it gets its
name?
6. During Guadalcanal why did the Japanese resort to night attacks?
7. What happened on Bloody Ridge?
8. Who was Mitchell Paige?
9. Why did the Japanese call Guadalcanal the Island of Death?
10. Who were the Spirit Warriors? How did their views results in the massive
loss of lives for the Japanese in the Pacific?
11. What does Isin Gorin mean?
12. How did the Japanese Leaders bastardize the samurai code of honor?
13. Who is this famous Flyboy?
14. What happened to Adm. Yamamoto?
15. In 1943 the US Submarine fleet began unrestricted sub warfare in the
Pacific, how is this a little hypocritical?
16. Often called the Patton of the Pacific, this man was 2nd in command
behind Nimitz.
17. What were Japanese PILLBOXES?
18. What distinction does the 24th Infantry Regiment have?
19. How did fighting at Bougainville and new Georgia change the way the US
Navy and Marines fought the war in the Pacific?
20. What was a Banzai Charge?
21. As the US forces took island after island what did the Japanese high
command such as Tojo and Hirohito order should be done with all POWS?
22. Why is it that each side saw the other as DEVILS?
23. What was different about fighting on Tarawa than previous islands?
24. What did the Japanese learn after Tarawa?
25. What is a Navy Corpsman? Why do these men basically become part of the
they Marine units that they were attached to?
26. What is a DUKW?
27. Why was Rabaul such an important target?
28. What does the term Outer ring refer to?
29. Why were the Marshall Islands such a huge step towards victory?
30. The introduction of this aircraft allowed the US Air Corps to truly bring
hell to Japan.
31. By looking at this picture what can say about the differences in fighting in
the pacific and in Europe?