(A) ** defeating Japan
(B) marching to Baatan
(C) attacking Berlin
(D) V-E Day
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -The US island-hopping campaign in the Pacific during World War II faced some of its fiercest resistance on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The fighting on those islands gave US planners a glimpse of what almost certainly awaited an invasion of mainland Japan.
Concept note-2: -31.7. 4: Okinawa and Iwo Jima Hard-fought battles on the Japanese home islands of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and others resulted in horrific casualties on both sides but finally produced a Japanese defeat.
Concept note-3: -A costly victory for the United States, the battle was one of the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps and was cited as proof of the Japanese military’s willingness to fight to the last man.
Concept note-4: -Okinawa Island In the Pacific theater, however, American forces were still painstakingly conquering Japan’s Home Islands, one after another. After obliterating Japanese troops in the brutal Battle of Iwo Jima, they set their sights on the isolated island of Okinawa, their last stop before reaching Japan.