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Pearl Harbor
This was a surprise military strike by the imperial Japansese Navy against the United States Naval Base in Pearl Harbor. Happened on the morning of December seventh at 7:48 A.M. Hawaiian time. It was to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions with the Empire of Japan. Base was attacked by 353 Japanese torpedo planes and bombers, and launched six aircrafts.Eight U.S Navy ships were damaged and four were sunk. 188 U.S aircraft were damaged. 2,403 Americans were killed. -
Battle of Java Sea
Battle took place on the Java Sea. Allied Navies suffered from the Imperial Japanese Navy. Included several smaller actions around Java, including the smaller but also significant Battle of Sunda Strait. The battle was the largest surface ship since 1916. The (ABDA) had 2 crusiers (heavy) and 3 that were light and 9 destroyers. Commanded by Doorman. Japanese had 2 heavy and 2 light cruisers and 14 destroyersand 10 transports Commanded by Rear-Admiral Takeo Takagi. Weather was bad. 2,300 & 36 -
Bataan Death March
Soldiers from the Japanese force were lacking food and sick, maemarched through the steaming forest of Bataan. The ones dropped out of line were shot or beaten. The ones that fell were left for dead. The Japanese provided little food or water. Thousands of soldiers perished on this called it the Bataan Death March. Those who lived and completed the journey did not fare much better. TheJapanese prison camp, lack of food and medicine claimed hundreds more American and Filippinos lived. -
Doolittle Raid
On April 18, 1942, army Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led a troop of 16 Ammerican bombers on an air raid of Tokyo and other Japanese cities . Airplanes launched from an aircraft carrier hundred of miles off coast of Japan. This was the fisrtirst attack on the Japanese mainland during the war. This didnt do much damage to the Japanese targets but did significant effects. Americas could celebrate something. And the worry of Japans anger of the leaders. -
Island Hopping Strategy
The attack was lead by General MacArthur, Commander of Allied forces in the South west Pacific, & Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet. The US troops targeted the islands that were not as strongly defended by Japanese. They took control of them, and quickly constructed landing strips and small military bases. They proceeded to attack other islands from the bases. Slowly the US army moved closer to Japan. “Cartwheel”They aimed to corner Japanese troops on Rabaul. -
Battle of Coral Sea
Part of the Pacific Fleet. Took place as Japanese forces preparing to invade the British controlled port Moresby on the island of New Guinea. U.S admiral Chester Nimitz sent two aircraft carriers and both the American and Japanese navies both suffered damage. Americans- loss aircraft & 12. Stopped the attack. -
Loss of Philippinies
Douglas MacArthur led the defense. A force of Americans and a number of poorly trained Filippino soldiers. The Japanese invaders came ashore in December 1941. MacArthur retreated to Bataan Peninsula where he and his troops were short on supllies, food, and medicine. Hunger and illness began to take control over MacArthur and his troops. Less than a month later he along with 10,000 Americans and 60,000 Filippino surrendered. 5 dayss & nights they marched through the steaming Bataan forest. -
Battle of Midway
Japanese military planners decided to try to lure the Americans into a large sea battle. First would to attack the Americanheld Midway Island. They hoped it would pull the American fleet into the area. Japanese had many carriers and ships. American had Naval intelligence officers that broke a Japanese code and learned about the planned attack on Midway. Americans knew the date June 3, 1942. They knew the en direction the Japanese ships would approach. Nimitz goal was to stop a Japanese landing. -
Battle of Midway
Nimitz plan worked. The Japanese launched their attack in the early morning hours of June 4, 1942. USS Enterprise broke through the Japanese defenses. Americans bombs severly damaged 3 of 4 carriers. The Japanese did destroy American carrier the USS Yorktown. -
Guadalcanal
To win control of territory in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese moved into the islands in thr spring of 1942. It threatened nearby Australia, which fighting alongside the Allies in the Pacific. An Allied in the Solomon would help protect Australia. Would provide a base for further efforts tompuch the Japanese. The Solomon was to capture Guadalcanal. The Japanese nearly completed a airfield. Temp in 90s during the day. Disease insects filled the air. Americans came ashore in August 1942. -
Guadalcanal
Fought in bloody combat with japan forces. Took place on land, at sea, and in the air.Japanese fled the isla an d in February 11943.the Japanese was looking fot the Americans. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Known as the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. It was fought in waters of the Leyte Gulf, near the Philippine islands of Leyte, between American and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. US troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at Japan from the countries in Southeast Asia, Depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies.he Imperial Japanese Navy mobilized nearly all of its remaining major naval vessels in attempt to defeat the Allied invasion 3&7 -
Battle of Two Jima
The need for a base near the Japanese coast. Iwo Jima was defended by 23,000 Japanese army & navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. The battle was marked by changes in Japanese defense troops no longer defended at the beach line but concentrated inland; the marines experienced initial success but then got bogged down in costly attritional warfare. American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded. Except for 1,083. -
Battle of Okinawa
Japan lost 77,166 soldiers, who were either killed or committed suicide, and the Allies suffered 14,009 deaths. 42,000–150,000 local civilians were killed or committed suicide, a significant proportion of the local population.The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender less than two months after the end of the fighting on Okinawa. -
Battle of Okinawa
Was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa. The 82-day battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa.Their invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces. "typhoon of steel" The intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific. -
Atomic Bomb on Hroshima
By August 1945, the Allied Manhattan Project had successfully detonated an atomic device in the New Mexico desert and subsequently produced atomic weapons based on two alternate designs. General Douglas MacArthur and other top military commanders favored continuing the conventional bombing of Japan already in effect and following up with a massive invasion, codenamed “Operation Downfall.” Truman decided the reservations of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Eisenhower & a number of the Manhattan. -
Atomic Bomb of Nagasaki
A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9.Little Boy exploded 2,000 ft above Hiroshima in a blast equal to 12-15,000 tons of TNT, destroying 5sq miles of the city. Within the first 2 to 4 months of the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
Happened on August 15, Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II.
