-
At 7:55 a.m, the first Japanese bomber appeared over Pearl Harbor, followed by approximately 200 planes, like torpedoes, bombers... This left 2,400 people dead.
-
President Roosevelt called December 7 “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress voted to declare war on Japan.
-
MacArthur was unable to stop Japan's advance toward the Philippines. He and more of his 70,000 soldiers had to surrender to the Japanese.
-
The Bataan Death March was a forced march of Japanese prisoners of war in the Philippines. More than 600 Americans and about 10,000 Filipinos died in the Bataan Death March.
-
American and Japanese aircraft carriers and fighter planes clashed. There was no clear victory but the Japanese assault on Port Moresby was stopped.
-
Japan bombed the Midway Islands. In this battle the Japanese naval power was greatly weakened.
-
Japan surrendered after the Americans dropped two atomic bombs, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki.
