WWII Timeline Pacific Theatre

By kaseymyers05
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japan Unprovoked Attack of US
  • US declares war on Japan

    US declares war on Japan

    FDR makes a speech to congress " ...a date that will live in infamy"
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid

    American bombs fall in in Japan for the first time
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Turning point of war with Japan
  • MacArthur returns to Philippines

    MacArthur returns to Philippines

    Famous speech " I have returned"
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima

    Island captured by US Marines raise flags

  • Atomic bomb dropped

    over 120,000 die at Hiroshima
  • V-J day

    V-J day

    WWII ends in Japan