Multiple choice

The costly invasions of which two islands brought the U.S. the closest to Japan?

  1. Iwo Jima and Hiroshima

  2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  3. Midway & Hawaii

  4. Iwo Jima and Okinawa

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D Correct answer
Explanation

The battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were two of the final and most costly battles in the Pacific theater, providing the U.S. with airbases close to the Japanese mainland.