U.S. Involvement in the Pacific Theatre - WWII

By sarmistead1@cox.net

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan

  • President Roosevelt orders General MacArthur out of the Phillipines

  • Doolittle Raid on Tokyo

  • Battle of Midway Island

  • Naval Battles at Guadalcanal begin

  • Americans land in the Solomon Islands

  • Americans land on Saipan

  • Battle of Iwo Jima begins

  • U.S. invades Okinawa

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders