Determining Cause and Effect 6 Points
After each Cause, write the letter of its Effect from the fact Bank below
1. Canse. After months of fierce fighting. Allied troops who had been defending
Bataan in the Philippines surrendered on April 9, 1942.
Effect
2. Cause: James Doolittle led a daring raid of sixteen American bombers launched
from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to bomb Tokyo
Effect:
3. Cause: In June 1944 American forces captured Guam and other islands nearby .
providing a base for launching bombing strikes on Japan.
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Effect:
4. Cause: American bombers pounded Tokyo and other Japanese cities, killing
thousands of civilians and crippling Japan's economy.
Effect:
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5. Cause: In 1939 German-born physicist Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the
President warning him that the Nazis might try to build new types of powerful
bombs
Effect:
6. Cause: Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin issued the
Potsdam Declaration, warning that if Japan did not surrender it would face
"prompt and utter destruction." Japan ignored the warning,
Effect:
Word Bank
A. In retaliation Japan unleashed lamikazes D. About 76,000 Allied prisoners were forced
who crashed planes loaded with explosives to endure a death march to a prison camp
into American ships.
only about 54,000 survived.
I. In October American ships were able to
destroy most of the Japanese fleet at the
Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, the
biggest huttle in naval history General
Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his promise
E. On August 6. 1945, an American B-29
bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic
bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, a
second homb was dropped on Nagasaki
to return
F. There was little military gain, but
American morale, which had been lon was
Lifted
C. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the
top secret operation, the Manhattan
Proiect