War In The Pacific

By Marc Santos

  • Roosevelt Recieves letter From Einstein

    no specific day
    Manhattan Project
    Atomic Bomb

  • Japan Attack Number of Other Allied Colonies

  • China Joined Allies

    China Joined Allies

  • First Controlled Chained Reaction In A Lab

    No specific date

  • General Boarded To Safety.

    FDR ordered General MacArthur To Get On a boarded torpedo boat to southern philippines.

  • Japanese Overrun British strongholds in hong kong and singapore

  • Bataan defenders Surrendered

    2000 soldiers and nurses escaped to fortified islands of corregidor

  • American B-25

    Medium bombers took off from aircraft carrier Hornet on their own secret mission.
    Led by lieutenant ColonelJames Doolittle.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    Aircraft carriers bombed enemy ships more than 70 miles away

  • Americans and filipinos Surrendered.

    11,000 Americans and Filipinos Surrendered to invade japanese forces.

  • Bataan Death March

    Japanese split 76,000 prisoners into groups of 500 - 1000
    forced march them some 60 mils
    10,000 died in first 6 - 12 day journey.

  • Batle of Midway

    Summer time
    unsuccessful American strike on japanese fleet

  • Battle of Guadcanal

    11,000 Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal

  • American Navy took control of Guadalcanal

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japanese Forces Attack U.S. Base.

  • Attack In Guam

    Japanese Forces Attack Guam

  • Battle of Guadalcanal Continued

    Japan outnumbered forces finally slipped off the island

  • Allies pushed north From Australia and West Across Central Pacific

    Until 1944

  • Japanese Air Power Crippled

    Nimitz's Forces seize Kwajalein and Eniwetok at the northwest end of the island groups

  • B-29 Superfortresses Were Dropping Tons of Explosives on Japan Cities

    Ending of this year (no Specific Date)

  • American Bombers Began to Pound Iwo Jima From The Air

    No Specific Day

  • Marines went to the Beaches of Iwo Jima

    no specific day

  • Battle of Okinawa

    no specific day100,000 defenders had pledged to fight to the death
    Japanese homeland

  • Roosevelt's Sudden Death

  • Allies Control Philippines

  • Manhattan Project Scientists Field Tested Worlds Fisrt Atomic Bomb

  • Dropped Single Atomic Bomb

    Hiroshima
    city in southern Japan

  • Second Bombed Dropped

    Nagasaki

  • J-V Day

    Victory In Japan Day

  • Surrender

    Formal surrender agreement was signed