Battle in the Pacific:
island hopping- hoping from major islands to other major islands; saves time, money, and lives
the islands will have to surrender because their supply lines are cut off
we dropped bombs on japan long before the atomic bomb was made
december 7, 1941- Philippiness-
we took over the philippiness until this date
we were forced to leave because japan took over
japan is on the road in january to take over manila
we wanted to just surrender a certain island of the philippiness but japan was determined to get the whole island which they did
bataan death march- may 1942
thousands of philippiness people were pushed to other cities (walking 60 miles) many miles away and along the way many were beaten and killed
about 20,000 men died
navajo code talkers:
big part in helping us win the war; spoke codes; tansmitted info through airwaves in their code
made it so that germany and japan didn't know what we were doing
doolittle's raid:
bombing in japan
purpose was to confuse the people in japan and make them question their leaders and we needed a morale boost
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