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Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor starting World War II for USA. -
War Declared
US Declares war on Japan in Washington DC. -
US Sinks Japanese Merchant Ship
US sinks their first Japanese merchant ship. -
Air Raids on Japs
First US aircraft carrier offensive of the war as Yorktown and US enterprise conduct air raids on Japaneses bases Gilbert and Marshall islands. -
Japaneses intermittent approve
President Roosevelt signed the executive order 9066 that gave the military the power to evacuate Japaneses nationals and Japaneses american citizens from the west coast to intermittent camps -
Bataan Death March
The Japanese march captured many US troops along with 66,000 Filipinos 65 miles in 6 days of the Bataan peninsula because the US surrendered the Bataan peninsula to Japan. Many died from sickness, starvation. and dehydration. Some were also killed for no reason. -
US Forces in Filipinos Surrender
The US forces were out-manned out gunned and malnourished by the Japanese forces, so they surrendered. -
Battle of The Coral Sea
US fleet stopped the Japanese fleet that was heading towards New Guinea. Planes from the Lexington and the Yorktown sank one Japanese carrier damaged another and destroyed smaller ships. -
Battle of Midway
This took place on the Island of Midway. Japanese forces fought relentlessly to stop American soldiers, but were pushed back. This marked the turning point for the US in the Pacific. -
US Invaded 3 Japanese Owned Isalnds
Tinain, Gaum, Saipan were liberated. They were controlled by Japanese in the Mariana Islands. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The island was controlled by Japan at the time and they knew if they lost the Filipinos they would be cut of from materials from the West Indies. Japan sent in warships from three directions. This was known as the largest naval engagement in history. -
Bombs dropped on Tokyo
US war planes dropped 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of 48 hours. -
Start of Battle for Okinawa Islands
Okinawa served as an important role for the planned invasion of Japan. It was the largest operations and took three months to secure the island. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
America dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan as a result of Japan not surrendering by August 3rd. Some people thought that it saved lives of Americans and shortened what could have been a long drug out war. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Truman was worried that if the Soviet Union entered the war things would become more complicated and also Japan had not surrendered so the bomb was dropped to push both countries to do what the US wanted. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan formally and officially surrendered by signing the Peace Treaty of San Francisco on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
