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Pearl Harbor
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It was tremendous success for Japan. -
Loss of Phillippines
The defending forces outnumbered the Japanese invaders by 3 to 2, but were a mixed force of non-combat experienced regular, national guard, constabulary, and newly created Commonwealth units. The Japanese used their best first-line troops at the outset of the campaign and concentrated its forces in the first month of the campaign, enabling it to swiftly overrun most of Luzon. -
Battle of Java Sea
JApanese forces caused so much damage to the Allied navies. The Japs also conquered British-controlled Burma as well as a number of key positions in the South Pacific. The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) Strike Force commander—Rear-Admiral Karel Doorman—was killed. The aftermath of the battle included several smaller actions around Java, including the smaller but also significant Battle of Sunda Strait. These defeats led to Japanese occupation of the entire Netherlands East. -
Bataan Death March
Some 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners were force-marched 63 miles in tropical heat with little food and water in the death march. Some 7,000 to 10,000 died. The surrender at Bataan was the largest in U.S History. prisoners were stripped of their weapons and valuables, and told to march to Balanga, the capital of Bataan. Some were beaten, bayoneted, and otherwise horribly mistreated. The first major atrocity occurred when approximately 350 to 400 Filipino officers and NCOs. -
Doolittle Raid
James Doolitte led a group of 16 American bombers on a daring air raid of Tokyo and several other Japanese cities. The airplanes had been launched from an aircraft carrier several hundred miles off the coast of Japan. Doolittle's raid did't do major damage to Japanese targets. IT did have som significant effects. It was to finally give something for Americans to celebrate. -
Battle of Coral Sea
This battle featured the one part of the Pacific fleet that had not been badly damaged at Pearl Harbor-the aircraft carriers. Japanese forces were preparing to invade British controlled Port Moresby on the island of New Guinea. General Chester Minitz sent two aircraft carriers on the attack. In the battle that followed Japanese forces have been stopped. -
Battle of Midway
Japanese military planners decided to try to lure the Amsericans into a large sea battle. The first step would be to attack the American-held Midway Island which sat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Naval intellegence officers had broken a Japanese code and learned about the plans for attacking Midway. The Americans had a tremendous victory. -
Guadalcanal
On 7 August 1942, Allied forces, predominantly United States Marines, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands, with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the US, Australia, and New Zealand. The Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. -
Island hopping strategy
By the late 19th century, the U.S. had several interests in the western Pacific to defend; namely, access to the Chinese market, and colonies – the Philippines and Guam – which the U.S. had gained as a result of the Spanish–American War (1898). After Japan's victories in the Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) and in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, the U.S. began to regard Japan as a potential threat to its interests in the western Pacific. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
It was fought in waters of the Leyte Gulf, near the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar and Luzon, from 23–26 October 1944, between combined American and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. On 20 October, United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in Southeast Asia, and in particular depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) mobilized. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The Japanese positions were heavily fortified making it hard for the U.S. Army to take control. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.Overwhelming American superiority in arms and numbers as well as complete control of air power. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦 Hepburn: Okinawa-sen?) (Okinawan: Ucinaaikusa), codenamed Operation Iceberg,[17] was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa itself.[18][19] The 82-day-long battle lasted from 1 April until 22 June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.n the final year of the war, the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. -
Atomic bomb on Nagasaki
On August 6, the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) on the city of Hiroshima. American President Harry S. Truman called for Japan's surrender 16 hours later, warning them to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Three days later, on August 9, the U.S. dropped a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki. The bombings killed 39,000-80,000 people in Nagasaki. -
VJ Day!!!!
Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945. On September 2, 1945 VJ day was held.
