Question

Determining Cause and Effect

6 Points
After each Cause, write the letter of its Effect from the Fact Bank below.
1. Cause. 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.
Effect:
4. Cause: American bombers pounded Tokyo and other Japanese cities, killing
thousands of civilians and crippling Japan's economy.
Effect:
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 kamikazes
who crashed planes loaded with explosives
into American ships.
B. In October American ships were able to
destroy most of the Japanese fleet at the
Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, the
biggest battle in naval history. General
Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his promise
to return.
C. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the
top-secret operation, the Manhattan
Project.
D. About 76,000 Allied prisoners were forced
to endure a death march to a prison camp:
only about 54,000 survived.
E. On Auguest 6, 1945, an American B-29
bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic
bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, a
second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
F. There was little military gain, but
American morale, which had been low, was
lifted.

Answer 1

Cause: After months of fierce fighting, Allied troops who had been defending Bataan in the Philippines surrendered on April 9, 1942.

Effect: D

Cause: James Doolittle led a daring raid of sixteen American bombers launched from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to bomb Tokyo.

Effect: F

Cause: In June 1944 American forces captured Guam and other islands nearby, providing a base for launching bombing strikes on Japan.

Effect: F

Cause: American bombers pounded Tokyo and other Japanese cities, killing thousands of civilians and crippling Japan's economy.

Effect: A

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: C

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: E

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