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Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on us located at Pearl Harbor on Sunday December seventh 1941 at 7:55 A.M. 2,403 killed and many injured. Start of WWII. -
U.S. Declares War on Japan
FDR gives speech declaring war on Japan because of the events that happened at Pearl Harbor. -
Attack on Quadacanal
The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. Japanese troops were stationed in the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction. The Japanese suffered a far greater toll of casualties, forcing their withdrawal from Guadalcanal by February 1943. -
U.S Troops Invade Adak Island
U.S. invade to take out any of the Japanese troops controlling the area. -
The Battle of Bismarck Sea
he Battle of the Bismarck Sea took place in the South West Pacific Area during World War II when aircraft of the U.S. Fifth Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force attacked a Japanese convoy carrying troops to Lea, New Guinea. the U.S. had victory. -
Submarine warfare against Japanese shipping.
American submarine crews were responsible for 90% of Japanese merchant and naval losses in the Pacific. US submarines employed surface engagement when attacking Japanese supply convoys, resulting in devastating losses to Japanese shipping. -
U.S. Marines invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands
On June 15, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II, U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the Japanese island of Saipan, with a goal of gaining a crucial air bases from which the U.S. could launch its new long-range B-29 bombers directly at Japan’s home islands. -
Atomic Bomb Successfully Tested
The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Albert Einstein wrote FDR supporting theory that an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction had a great potential as a basis for a weapon of mass destruction.
