USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE HOLOCAUST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Bataan Death March revealed ____
A
U.S Military’s ability to encode secret messages
B
Japanese Military’s willingness to commit war crimes
C
U.S Military’s ability to use atomic weapons
D
Japanese military’s ability to succeed in traditional combat
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Japanese intended for captured Filipino and American soldiers to march the roughly sixty-five miles from the Bataan peninsula to a railhead inland, from which they would be moved by train to a prisoner of war camp.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Death March was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime.

Detailed explanation-3: -The captured American and Filipino men were then subjected to the Bataan Death March, a torturous march of more than 65 miles, in which thousands of troops died due to starvation, dehydration, and gratuitous violence. Thousands more would die in prisoner of war camps before they were liberated three years later.

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