14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US Military during WWII. He stayed in Washington D.C. controlled all the men in the military. President the only person above him.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
After Japan took out Pearl Harbor. They had basically freedom in the Pacifics, and started to take over many islands. Island Hopping- Skipping little islands, and getting to the Major ones, the small ones should eventually get their supplies cut off, and would have to surrender.
We thought we would have to invade Japan, to take them over. A lot of the Japanese were fighting to the death and commiting Kamakazies; strapping bombs to plans and running into our boats. Initially we started to bomb them with atomic bombs.
December 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor wasn't the only area attacked, they also attacked the Philippines, and took it over. Our troops moved to Australia. Japaneese prepared themselves in the Philippines, to attack Australia, they never did. They did make the Americans who surrendered, and the Filopinos go on the Bataan Death March. Thousands of Filopinos and Americans died, were killed, and abused. Due to this (and other crimes) , Japanese faced crime trials after war.
20. Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo people were designated to transmitted military information over the airwaves in their code. It gave us a huge advantage because we could disifer everybody elses language, and they couldn't ours. These people were greatly segregated against, so they weren't shown respect til about ten years ago.
21. Doolittle's Raid
Roosevelt told his military that they're going to try to bomb Japan as fast as they can, although they believed they couldn't. They believed the reason to attack them was to tell the Japanese that they weren't impenetrable, they believed they can't be beaten, and an attack on their homeland would surprise them. Another reason was to get back at them for them hitting us hard, and giving America hope. James Doolittle said this, and was put in charge of the raid, it took place in April 1942.
It wasn't going to differ the tide of war, so many generals thought that there was no reason for it.
This made the Japanese try to push their territory out farthur and take over more islands, it eventually hurt them.
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
Why did we win World WarII? :
Henry Kaiser- He was a major ship builder/ industrialist. We built more ships, weapons, tanks airplanes than the Axis powers, that all the other countries couldn't keep up. It helped up majorly.
A. The Battle of Coral Sea- A major naval battle that took place between, Japan, the United States, and Australia. It was teh first in which aircraft carriers engaged eachother. It was the first in which neither ships saw or fired directly upon the other. Although Japan took more ships, it was our success because we stopped their advance to Australia. It was mainly air planes attacking air planes, and aircraft carriers. You can equilly argue who won on this one, Japan with more Ships.. America with keeping them away.
B. Battle of Midway- This was the ultimate turning point of Japan. The most important naval battle against Japan. The Japanese believed that their attack on us at Midway Island, would knock us out of the war, and as a Power in the Pacific. We defeated their attack on Midway. Japan suffered a heavy loss, never recovering. Magic played a huge role in this victory.
C. Iwo Jima- As we get closer to Japan. We use the islands near it to bomb it. Many of the Japanese were dug into the mountain. Took 6,800 deaths. Was kinda hard because they weren't going to surrender, but we eventaully got them to. They rose a flag on a Mountain.
Guadalcanal- It was a group of island chains. It was our first offensive, where we pushed the Japanese out of the canal, and tried to get those islands out of control from the Japanese. We used Island Hopping and atomic bombs.
Okinewa- We watched for planes coming directly at you. Japanese commiting kamakazie- suicide to take down american ships. We had to try to destroy the plane before it hit.
Later we attacked Okinewa, shelling the island and bombing it before we invaded, but many of them were dug in underground. They still commited Kamakazies on us as we were entering.
General McArtur- Fuflilled his promise to return to the Phillipines (1944). We came back and took the Philipines back over from the Japanese.
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