Match each location with its significance during WWII.

Column A
1.
the unexpected U.S. naval victory stopped the Japanese advance and put the Japanese on the defensive:

2.
battles demonstrated the tenacity of the Japanese soldiers and the cost in American lives that an invasion of the Japanese home lands would entail:

3.
decimated by U.S. atomic bombs in August 1945:




Column B
a.Midway Island
b.Iwo Jima and Okinawa
c.Hiroshima and Nagasaki