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Island Hopping
This as a military strategy used by the United States in the Pacific by going island to island, attempting to get closer to the Japanese mainland to try to end the war in the Pacific. -
Bataan Death March
Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a vigorous 65-mile march to prison camps in the Philippines. -
Battle of Coral Sea
This was a naval battle in the Pacific theater between the United States and the Japanese and was the first major battle involving aircraft carriers. -
Battle of Midway
Jun 04, 1942-Jun 07, 1942
The Japanese sent a majority of their navy towards Midway island, which was being used by the US as an airfield. The battle was fought by aircraft from aircraft carriers. -
Kamikaze
Were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks. (Google) -
Okinawa
Okinawa, was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. There were 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. Battle went on for more than a month. Considered one of the bloodiest battles in the pacific. The allies suffered 65,000 casualties, 14,000 of them dead. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
Aug 06, 1945-Aug 09, 1945
This was when the first ever atomic bombs were used in warfare, and to this day are the only ones to see action. In the final stage of the war, the United States dropped 2 atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed at least 129,000 people ending world war 2.
