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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighters planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. 350 American aircraft were destroyed or damaged. OVer 3500 Americans were killed or wounded during Pearl Harbor. -
U.S declared War
One day after the Pearl Harbor Bombing the US declare war against Japan. President Roosevelt requests and recieved a declaration Of war against Japan. He gve the US a ten minute speech. -
Germany declares war on US
Hitler declared war on The US with Japan. HItler thought that the Us would declare war on germany before hw had the chance. The US naval was already attacking German U-Boats and Hitler despised for his repeated verbsal attacks against his Nazi ideology. -
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Rosevelt made the speech to declare war on Japan the day after the bombing of pearl harbor. They planned to attack Japan at the pacific theater. It was a sucessful plan. -
Battle of iwo Jima
The US invaded Iwo Jima a key island in the bonin chain about 375 miles from Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by 23,000 japanese army and navy troops .sixty-eight hundred tons of bombs, twenty-two thousand shells were fired -
A Bomb
On August 6 1945 The US attack Hiroshima with Atomic weapons.The bomb was equally to 20,000 tons of TNT it flattened the city. The US struck again three days later in Nagasaki
