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Loss of Philippines
General Douglas MacArthur led the defense of that island chain of the Philippines. He commanded a small force of Americans, plus a number of poorly trained and equipped Filipino soilders. His soilders were no match for the Japanese invaders. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese launched an attack on the US naval fleet in the Territory of Hawaii. They used planes that dropped bombs and torpedos that destroyed US ships.This helped them capture many more territories and camps. Almost all of the US naval fleet was destroyed in this attack. The President had warnings and thouhgts that something might happen but never took action. We had radar but we just thought it was our airforce practicing not the Japanese. 2000 Americans were killed. -
Battle of Java Sea
Much damage was caused to the Allied Navies. The Battle of the Java Sea was a decisive naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat at the hand of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on 27 February 1942, and in secondary actions over successive days. -
Bataan Death March
They tried to hold off the Japanese at the Bataan Peninsula but when they got there they saw the shortage of food and supplies. MacArthur treid to get officials to send food and supplies but he was told it was too risky. Soon however hunger and sickness came over the men and MacArthur was ordered to leave his men. He told them he would be back soon. Less than a month later 10000 American and 60,000 Filipino troops surrendered. They were forced to march to a Japanese prison camp. -
Doolittle Raid
also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States of America on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, and provided an important boost to American morale. The raid was planned and led -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.Between 4 and 7 June 1942,only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian John Keegan called it the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare. -
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and code-named Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi, by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Island Hopping Strategy
Island Hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. The idea was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The largest Naval battle ever fought. It was fought in waters of the Leyte Gulf, near the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar and Luzon, from 23–26 October 1944, between combined American and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. On 20 October, United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in Southeast Asia, and in particular depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland. -
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 6, the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) on the city of Hiroshima. American President Harry S. Truman called for Japan's surrender 16 hours later, warning them to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima. -
Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
Three days later, on August 9, the U.S. dropped a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki. 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki died from the bomb. On August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies. On September 2, it signed the instrument of surrender, effectively ending World War II. The bombings' role in Japan's surrender and their ethical justification are still debated. -
VJ Day!!
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
