Kelly Pouso

By kellyp2013

  • Doolittle's Raid

    Doolittle's Raid
    VICTOR- Americans
    -Air attack on Japan
    -GOAL-strike against Japanese Home Islands and help American morale
    -Americans hoped to make the Japanese to have doubt in their leadership
    -1 day battle and was the first air raid
    -resulted in material damage to Japan and caused Japan to withdraw its powerful aircraft carrier force

  • Coral Sea

    Coral Sea
    May 4th-May 8th 1942
    -VICTOR: Americans
    -one of the first naval battles in WWII and first pure carrier-vs-carrier battle
    - Japanese planned to invade New Guinea but Allies opposed it
    -Allies and Japanese met and began to attack each other
    -loss of the USS Lexington was most significant
    -turning point in war because the Allies ended Japanese advance

  • Midway

    Midway
    June 4th-June7th 1942
    VICTOR: U.S
    -destroy naval strength of Japan
    -Americans lost 1 carrier and Japan lost 4
    - sea power in the Pacific changed from Japan to an equal distribution of America and Japan

  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    August 7,1942-February 21,1943
    VICTOR:Japanese
    -U.S planned to destroy Japanese, but a majority of Japanese escaped
    -August- U.S marines set up on the northern beaches of Guadalcanal and the Japanese attacked on the 23rd
    -Americans pushed further attack following this battle in hopes of recieving Mount Austen
    -Japanese lost over 9,000 men to disease in this battle and a total of 14,800

  • Saipan

    Saipan
    June 15,1944-July 9,1944
    VICTOR:Americans
    -U.S. planned to launch an offensive against the Japanese
    -American battleships and destroyers fired at the islands and then the main invastion took place on land
    -U.S was able to learn military occupation of enemy territory

  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    February 19,1945-April 7,1945
    VICTOR:U.S
    -Americans wanted to destroy Japanese merchant fleet to end mainland supplies from reaching the Japanese
    -Japanese used Kamikaze attacks on Amerians
    -Americans bombing inneffective- gave Japanese advantage to use holes to hide snipers
    -Americans needed to capture two airfield for emergency landing bases: Japan controlled these two in the beginning of the battle

  • Okinawa

    Okinawa
    March 24,1945-June 22,1945
    VICTOR:U.S
    -battle marks end of war
    -bloodiest battle of WWII and largest invasion on Pacific
    -Japanese continued to use Kamikazes
    -Americans gathered ships to complete invasion
    -the battle occured in 4 phases:advance to eastern coast, clear the northern part of the island, occupy the surrounding islands, and main battle -little opposition for majority of battle, but towards the end, Japanese faught stong and the naval gunfire was inneffective