Japan
Island Hopping
Philippines - major naval battle, and invasion, MacArthur was the US general
Coral Sea Battle
Guadalcanal - US first offensive battle
Battle of Midway - important naval battle
Iwo Jima - wanted it for air strip and strategic location
Okinawa - largest amphibious assault of pacific war, 82 days
Navajoes Code Talkers - used the Navajoes code, not their language
Kamikaze
Bataan Death March
Atomic Bombs - instead of invading at the cost of losing too many lives they decided to bomb in Hiroshima(Little Boy) and Nagasaki(Fat Man), Japan surrendered a month after, In Nagasaki there was less damage done because they missed the target by a little bit and the mountain blocked some of the impact
VJ Day - August 14(Japan)/15(US) 1945, September 2, 1945 - the day the US declares it
Home front
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gEUw9VOFEcQmXjzxviyv3q6xGFSJ9M1bK_er0-JwiNk/edit?usp=sharing
Manhattan Project
Japanese Americans
Women in WWll
Propaganda, Rationing, War Production, Mass Production, War Bonds
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