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Battle of Monitor and Merrimack
the northern built Merrimack, a conventional steam frigate, had been salvaged by the confederates from norfolk navy yard and rechristened the virginia. with her upper hull cut away and armoured with iron, this 263-foot (80.2 metre) masterpiece of improvisation resembled, according to one contemporary source, a floating barn roof. commanded by virginia virtually decimated a union fleet of wooden warships off newport news, virginia. -
Pearl Harbor
At 6;00 am. on 7 december, the six japanese carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers. horizontal bombers and fighters. even as they winged south, some elements of U.S forces on Oahu realized there was something different about that sunday morning. U.S navy vessels spotted an unidentified submarine periscoope near the entrance to pearl harbor. -
executive order of 9066
Executive Order 9066, (feb. 19, 1942), executive order issued by U.S pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, which granted the secretary of war and his commanders the power ''to prescribe military areas in such plaaces and of such extent as he or the appropriate military commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded. while no specific group or location was mentioad in the order, it was quickly applied to virtually the entire japanese American population on the west coast. -
battle of midway
six months after the attack on pearl harbor, the united states defeated japan in one of the most decisive naval battle of world war 2. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, th united states was able to preempt the counter Japan's planned ambush of it's few remaining aircraft carriers. inflicting permanent damage on the japanese navy. An important turning point in the pacific campaighn, The voctory allowed the United States and it's allies to move into an offensive postion. -
Battle of the Aleutian Island's
In the battle of the aleutian islands (june 1942-august 1943) during world war 2 (1939-45), U.S troops fought to remove japanese garrison established on a pair of U.S owned island's west of alaska. In June 1942, Japan had seized the remote, during Japan attack on Midway island (June 4-7, 1942) in the central pacific. It's also possible the japanese believed holding the two island's could prevent the U.S from invading Japan. -
executive order 9066
ten weeks after the japanese bombed pearl harbor u.s president franklin d. roosevelt signs executive order 9066 -
The bombing of hiroshima
on august 1945, during world war 2 1939-45 an american b-29 bomber dropped the world first deployed atomic bomb over the japanese city of hiroshima. the exposition woped out 90 percent in killed 80,000 people.
