history

By Leah14

  • Pearl Harbor

    December 7, 1941 Japanse bonde navy base by surpise us enter wwll. he Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes .More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.

  • General Macarthur

    commander of us forces in paicife. General MacArthur served as commander of U.S. forces during the Korean War until 1951.1950, driving the U.S. troops back with heavy losses.

  • Battle of Midway

    June 4, 1942 us attacks japanses in pacifie. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.llowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position

  • Guam

    august 1944 us force cupture guam In 1941, the Japanese attacked and captured it, and in 1944, after three years of Japanese occupation, U.S. forces retook Guam. Guam, a 200-square-mile island in the western Pacific, became a U.S. possession in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.

  • Iwo jima

    march 16, 1945 us captures iwo jime. During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island's highest peak and most strategic position, and raise the U.S. flag.

  • Japan surrenders

    sept 2, 1945 By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed.The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastate.

  • Hiroshime Japan

    us drops 1st atomic bomd august 6, 1945. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

  • Manhattan projed

    Manhattan projed
    development of atomic bomb. America's secret development of the atomic bomb began in 1939 with then-President Franklin Roosevelt's support. The project was so secret that FDR did not even inform his fourth-term vice president, Truman, that it existed.

  • Naqasaki , Japan

    August 9, 1945 2nd a bomb. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of "a new and most cruel bomb."