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The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Hawaii is a very important, strategic location because it controls the Pacific Ocean and if the Japanese could take out the US naval fleet in Pearl Harbor, it would be easier to get oil from the Indis.
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The Doolittle Raid
A surprise attack on Japan as revenge for the Pearl Harbor attack. It didn't do lots of damage but boosted U.S. citizen's morale. All or the pilots made it to safety in China or the Soviet Union.
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The Battle at Midway
Japanese had planned to capture a strategic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, home to an American military base. The Japanese wanted to lure the Am's into a battle they were sure to lose. Americans had broken the Japan code so they could understand the messages.
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Battle of Guadalcanal
On the swamp-and-jungle-covered island near Australia; each side won small battles before the Jap's fled the island in 1943 (one of the island hopping battles)
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Executive Order 9066 and Korematsu v. United States
Issued by FDR, relocated Japanese, Italian, and German Americans into internment camps.
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MacArthur returns to the Philippines
MacArthur served as chief U.S. military adviser to the Philippines before World War II. Link text -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Marines landed in the Pacific in what was the largest all-Marine battle in history. It was also the bloodiest in Marine Corps history. The US suffered over 7,000 casualties. The capture of Iwo Jima greatly increased the air support and bombing operations against the Japanese home islands. Link text -
The Island Hopping strategy
Was to strategically take Japanese-held islands in order for the Americans to be able to bomb Japan in preparation for an invasion of the Japanese home island.
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, US fights back by first atomic bomb on the two Japan cities. Known as the deadly mushroom. Link text -
