Question

Based on the map, which US- controller areas did Japan attack after Pearl Harbor? Check all that apply

-Hong Kong
-Dutch East Indies
-Philippines
-Malaysia
-Guam
-Wake Island

Answer 1

The Japanese attacked The Philippines Guam and Wake Island

Answer 2

After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked the United States in Philippines, Guam and Wake Island.

Step-by-step explanation:

In 1937, Japan resumed its expansion through China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. After fighting two battles with the Soviet Union, with adverse results, Japan occupied French Indochina, seeking to end the long struggle in China. The United Kingdom, the United States and other nations with interests in the region responded by imposing an economic embargo that threatened to suffocate Japan. After failed negotiations, Japan simultaneously attacked, without prior declaration of war, territories controlled by the United States (Philippines, Guam and Wake Island), United Kingdom, Thailand and Netherlands in December 1941.

The Japanese attack failed to destroy the US Navy in the Pacific, although it weakened it. Japan managed to conquer the Philippines, Malaysia, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong and undertook an offensive in the Indian Ocean in 1942. The Japanese advance stopped that same year, after the defeats in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, the latter with disastrous results for Japan.