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The Japanese Navy Air service attacked Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii, causing mass chaos and distruction -
the US and Japanese naval forces were in a five day battle in the middle of the Pacific Ocean -
the US stopped Japanese efforts to stop supply routes to Australia and New Zealand and the us fought with japan for six months to keep US occupancy -
Over 60,000 prisoners of war were forced to march 65 miles -
the us air raid the targeted major cities in japan during world war two. the goal of this was to instill fear in the Japanese as revenge for Pearl Harbor -
a decisive air and sea batter that permitted the US and other allies to the invade the Philippines and crippled the Japanese Combat Fleet -
the US forces invaded the island because had three airfeilds that could have served as a staging facility for the US after is had been overtaken -
The US dropped an atomic bomb over the city of Nagasaki and killed over 40,000 people -
the IUS dropped an atomic bomb over the japanese city of Hiroshima killing over 80,000 people
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Japanese representatives signed the official surrender for world war two