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Nanking Massacre
In late 1937 over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousand of people including both soldiers and civilians. -
USS Enterprise
The most decorated u.s. naval ship of world war II, the 19,800-pound aircraft carrier USS Enterprise participated in more battles than any other American ship. -
Japanese expansions
In september 1940, the united states government issueda protest after Japan entered French Indochina; that same month, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and italy. -
Flying TIgers
The united states responded to appeals from Chinas Nationalist government to aid in its battle against the Japanese. China sent a small but elite group of pilots to help the united states in the war. -
Death at Bataan
Japanese forces defeated a combined U.S and Filipino army in the battle of battaan in the Philipines. They then forced more than 70,000 captured soldiers to march more than 60 miles north and brutaly hot weather to a capture U.S. Army base. -
Leyte Gulf
Japan and the United states waged the largest navel battle of the World War II and one of the largest in history for control of the Philippine Islands in the south Pacific -
Iwo Jima
The united states lost over 27,000 icluding 6000 killed in action.Only three of the men survived the asoult. They have a famous painting of the tree man that survived raising the american flag. -
The atomic bomb
The united states forces droped an atomic bomb onHiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 100,000 and exposing tens of thousands to deadly radiation. -
Battle of midway
When the Japanese started their attack after pearl harbor in Southeast Asia. It was fought on land, water and air. The japanese continued to fight after the war in Europe was over. -
Pearl Harbor
The japanese bome the united states navy and took down ships and this event was the start of world war two.
