-Island hopping
- many islands in Japan.
- US would move to every other island.
- US would attack the bigger islands
- then the smaller islands would surrender
- used this to get to Japan
-Battle of Coral Sea
- May 4, 1942/ 6 months after Pearl Harbor
- First Naval battle with planes
- Between Australia and New Guinea
- Completely air battle
- Japanese destroyed a lot of our stuff
- US won because we stopped Japan
- Chester Nimitz admiral of the navy against Japan
- Eisenhower
- Japan didn’t advance after Coral Sea
-Battle of Midway
- June 2 and 7, 1942
- US won
- Japanese ships building and training decreased
- Japan wasn’t going to win because we demolished their navy
- Magic and Ultra had a huge impact on the war
-Battle of Iwo Jima
- February 19, 1945
- Between US and Japan
- Month long battle
- Bloodiest of the Pacific wars
- Japan knew that there was no way they were going to win
- Japan lost 21,000 men
- Couldn’t surrender
- Fight to the death
- US won
- Raising of the flag took place
- Japan let us on shore right away
- US lost 6,821 people
- First flag wasn’t big enough
- 2nd flag was bigger
-Battle of the Philippines
- December 7, 1941
- US had control of Philippines before this battle
- Douglas McArthur leading us to victory against Japan
- General and said that he was going to fight to the end
- Baton Death March US soldiers surrendered and forced to walk
- Being transported from one camp to another
- Japan won the battle
-Battle of Okinawa
- Lasted 82 days
- Mainly to get closer to Japan because it was really close
- First island that was actually Japan’s
- Kamikaze hoping it would change the title of the war
- Wanted to use this to change the war
- Known as Japanese suicide
- Navajo Code Talkers- transmitted info through air waves
- A lot of racism against Navajo
- Japan wasn’t ever able to break the code
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