WWII- War in the Pacific

By Jim Xue

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Territorial Expansion.

  • (Tripartite Pact)

    Also known as the Berlin Pact. Agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin. Defensive Military Alliance.

  • Navaho Talkers/ Code Used

    The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater

  • Bombing of Tokyo

    The Bombing of Tokyo, often referred to as a series of firebombing raids, was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II.

  • Battle of Bataan "death march"

    U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Major battle fought between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.

  • Battle of Midway

    Decisive Naval Battle. Inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Turning point in the Pacific war

  • Tehran Conference

    A strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. Western Allies' commitment to open a second front against Nazi Germany.

  • Yalta Conference

    World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.

  • Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

    Iwo Jima: The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The last Japanese soldiers were captured or killed. This was the first battle of the war fought on the Japanese "home islands" and the fighting was very fierce.
    Okinawa: More than 100,000 Japanese soldiers and 17,000 Americans Marines and sailors were killed. In fact nearly a quarter of the population died.
    Most of the buildings on the island were completely destroyed.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

  • Bombing of Nagasaki

  • V-J Day

    Victory over Japan