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Pearl Harbor
Significance:
Brought the U.S. into the war, but weekend their navy.
Summary:
The Japanese suprised attacked Pearl Harbor to prevent them from joining the war. -
Period: to
WWII in pacific
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Coral Sea
Significance:
Firs time a Japanese attack had been checked by the Allies.
Summary:
The Japanese and Allied forces traded fire for two days then both fleets left. -
Battle of Midway
Significance:
The U.S. navy stuningly defeted the Japanese navy.
Summary:
The Japanese fleet planed to tap the U.S. navy but U.S. codebreakers learned their plans and the Japanese became traped. -
Guadalcanal
Significance:
U.S. stoped Japanese atempts to theaten Allied supply routes.
Summary:
The U.S. captured Guadacanal, then the Japanese made several failed atempts to retake it. -
Philipine sea
Significance:
Japan could no longer make large scale carrier atacks.
Summary:
The U.S. destroyed two Jappanise aircraft carriers and forced them to retreet. -
Philippines Campain
Significance:
Ended Japanese ocupation of the Philipines.
Summary:
U.S. forces faught Japanese forces in the Philipines until the end of the war in August 1945 -
Leyte Gulf
Significance:
Ended the Japanese ability to use large amouts of ships.
Summary:
Allied forces invaded Leyte to cut Japanese supply of oil and faught of a large Japanese navy. -
Iwo Jima
Significance:
Captured part of the Japanese homeland.
Summary:
The U.S. invades Iwo Jima to capture three air feilds. -
Boming of Tokyo
Significance:
Cut city's output in half
Summary:
U.S. bombings of tokyo happend fequently but the bigest was operation "Meetinghouse" which killed over 100,000 people. -
Okinawa
Significance:
Most feirce fighting in world war two.
Summary:
The U.S. invades Oknawa to use it as a staging ground for a planed invation of Japan. -
Second Battle of Guam
Significance:
The U.S. took back its teritory.
Sumary:
The U.S. invades Guam, previously taken by the Japanese
