Admiral chester nimitz- navy admiral against japan
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
- island hopping- policy where the US hops over less important islands and hit the important islands, soon the small islands would be surrounded and their supply lines would have been cut off. saves time money and lives
- philippines-
- december 7th 1941- day of pearl harbor... also attacked the philippines (US territory at the time)
- US surrenders to japan
- bataan death march-
- 60 mile stretch that japs forced american and filipino pow's to march to a new camp
- lots of physical abuse and death
- worst atrocity in wwii for us soldiers
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- october 1944
- completely destroyed japanese navy
- Coral Sea-
- naval battle between japan and allied airforces
- 1st action in which aircraft carriers engaged in each other
- japanese sunk more ships but we stopped their advancement toward australia
- Battle of Midway-
- thought of as the most important naval battle against japann
- japanese was trying to eliminate US as a power in the specific
- US defeated them big time
- destroyed the japanese navy
- magic played a big role in our victory
- june 6th 1942
- Guadalcanal-
- island in the solomon archipelago
- Allies against Japan
- we started pushing back- changed tatics to offensive
- japanese started to fall back
- Iwo Jima
- US bombed it
- japanese were dug in- whatever that means
- december 5th 1945
- US lost about 7,000 people (worst than D Day)
- Okinawa-
- kept bombing japan
- still weren't surrendering
- invaded okinawa
- shelled island first
21. Doolittle's Raid
- mission when the us bombed japan
- bombers took off from aircraft carriers
- didn't have a base
- had to take off extra weight
- did it to throw the japanese people off
- thought they were invulnerable
- americans needed a moral boost
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in
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