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Pearl Harbor
Involved in the attack onn Pearl Harbor were the United States and Japan. On the morning of Sunday December 7, The Japanese conducted a surprise attack on the United States. Killing 2,388 people. 12 ships were either beached or destroyed and 9 were damaged. They destoryed 164 and damaged 159 aircraft. All U.S. ships, except the USS Arizona, the USS Utah, and the USS Oklahoma, were salvaged and later saw action.This happened because the Japanese feared the U.S. Navy. -
Battle of Java Sea
It was between the U.S. and the Japanese. was a decisive naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat. It was fought in the Java Sea. -
Loss of Philipeans and Bataan Death March
Prisoners were stripped of their weapons and valuables, and told to march to Balanga, the capital of Bataan. Some were beaten, bayoneted, and mistreated. The first major atrocity occurred when between 350 and 400 Filipino officers and NCOs were summarily executed near the Pantingan river after they had surrendered. 105,000 people died. -
Doolittle Raid
Between U.S. and Japan. was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II.It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and provided an important boost to U.S. morale -
Island hopping Strategy
is the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly to the destination. In military strategy, it is the method of conquering islands in a steady sequence, usually with a defined endpoint. The strategy was employed by the United States in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II. Island Hopping began from the Midway Islands -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.In an attempt to strengthen their defensive positioning for their empire in the South Pacific, Japanese forces decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands. This involved many Japanese combined fleets. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle.The Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Japanese hoped that another demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the Pacific War and thus ensure Japanese dominance in the Pacific. The Japanese plan was to lure the U.S. into trap. -
Battle of MIdway
The plan was handicapped by faulty Japanese assumptions of the American reaction and poor initial dispositions.[13] Most significantly, American codebreakers were able to determine the date and location of the attack, enabling the forewarned U.S. Navy to prepare its own ambush. -
Guadalcanal
The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction. Reinforcements were funneled to the island as a series of land and sea clashes unfolded, and both sides endured heavy losses to their warship contingents. However Japan lost more troops. -
Battle of leyte Gulf
considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II. 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 supply. -
Batlle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima 19 February – 26 March 1945 was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields. -
Battle of Okinawa
was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific. -
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
This involved the U.S. and Japan. Japan refused to surrender so The U.S. decided droppng the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a good solution because it would save many American lives. -
Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man,” on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th. So at 1:56 a.m., a specially adapted B-29 bomber, called “Bock’s Car,” dropped the bomb. -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.
