WWII Timeline Pacific

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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japan unprovoked attack on US

  • US declares war on Japan

    FDR makes speech to congress "a date that will live in infamy"

  • Doolittle Raid

    American bombs fall on Japan for first time
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Turning point in war with Japan

  • MacArthur returns to Philippines

    famous speech "I have returned"
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima

    Island captured by US, Marines raise flag
  • Atomic Bomb dropped

    Atomic Bomb dropped

    over 120,000 die at Hiroshima

  • V-J-Day

    WWII ends in Pacific