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Aircraft carriers
The U.S. made air craft carriers to be able to send their pilots into battle quicker then them flying from the U.S. into the battle zone -
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor -
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Invasion of Philippines
The imperial Japan invaded the Philippines and were outnumbered but the people in the Philippines were a mix of combat and non combat people, -
(Do)o(Little)'s Raid
The U.S. raided Japan's capital of Tokyo, this was the U.S.'s first response back since Pearl Harbor -
John Brown
the S.S. John Brown was a liberty ship built in Baltimore, Maryland. -
island hopping
the United States launched a counter-offensive strike known as "island-hopping," establishing a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American led effort to make a functional atomic weapon during WWII. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was a model example of what women should do when the men are off fighting the war. They should roll their sleeves up and start working -
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Operation Fortitude
The U.S. tricked Nazi Germans that they would go and attack northern, so the U.S. could spread out Nazi forces throughout the coast line. And the U.S. used rubber tanks and wooden airplanes to make it look real. -
tunnels
The Nazi German and Imperial Japan used underground tunnels to communicate back and forth with each other. It also gave them an advantage because they can see the U.S. but the U.S. cant see them -
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iwo jima
the U.S. lands on the island of iwo jima and eventually wins the island over Japan -
Little Boy
This was the first atomic bomb that the U.S. drops on Japan. This bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. -
Enola Gay
Enola Gay was the name of the plane that dropped the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The plane was named after the pilots' mothers name. -
Fat Man bombing
It was the second bombing of the two atomic bombs that went off. This bomb went over Nagasaki
