world war ii world in flames war in the pacific. decmeber, 1941, japan bombs pearl harbor, hawaii
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World War IIWorld In Flames
War in the Pacific
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Decmeber, 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan; China
declares war on Japan later in
December.
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War in the Philippines begins with Japanese air attacks; much of the American bomber force is
destroyed on the ground at Clark Field.
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• Japan invades Malaya (today known as Malaysia); Japanese aircraft sink a British battleship and a battle cruiser off the coast of Malaya.
• Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central Pacific.
• Japan invades Hong Kong; British forces surrender.
• In the Philippines: Japanese forces take Manila;
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• American and Filipino troops withdraw to Bataan peninsula.
• January, 1942, Japan invades Burma.
• Malaya and the Solomon Islands fall. Rabaul, on New Britain island north of New Guinea, becomes an important Japanese base.
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February, 1942, in the first U.S. carrier offensive of the war, air raids are launched on Japanese bases
in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands.
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Japan invades Singapore; British surrender.
Japan overruns Dutch East Indies
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FDR announces that, by Executive Order, Pacific Coast
Japanese Americans will be relocated to internment camps.
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During the course of the war, over 17,000 Japanese Americans volunteer and fight for the U.S. in Europe.
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• FDR orders MacArthur out of the Philippines.
• Battle of the Java Sea in Indonesia: Japan destroys Dutch-American naval force.
• March, 1942, Japan takes Indonesia and the Dutch East Indies
• Japan invades New Guinea.• MacArthur leaves the
Philippines. • April, 1942, American and
Filipino forces on Bataan surrender.
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Bataan Death March: Over 12 days, Japanese troops force captured American and Filipino troops to walk 60
miles without food or water to prison camps. Approximately 1,000 Americans die during the march.
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Surprise U.S. air raids on Tokyo led by Lt. Col. James Doolittle.
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• May, 1942, American and Filipino forces on Corregidor in the Philippines surrender.
• Battle of the Coral Sea: In the first Japanese defeat of the war, American forces sink a Japanese carrier and badly damage two others heading for New Guinea.
• Japan completes capture of Burma and reaches India.
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VT-6 on the deck of Enterprise, prior to launch at Midway.
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June, 1942, Battle of Midway: In what is later seen as the "turning point" of the Pacific war, American carrier
aircraft sink all four of the Japanese navy's major aircraft carriers along with a cruiser. (Japan faced a critical
shortage of experienced pilots for the rest of the war.)
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March, 1943, Battle of Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Americans sink eight Japanese transports and four
destroyers bound for New Guinea.
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June, 1943, Battle of the Philippine Sea: American naval forces destroy three Japanese aircraft carriers
and 450 aircraft during the invasion of Saipan.
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October, 1943, Battle of Leyte
Gulf: In the largest naval battle of the
Pacific War, American forces destroy much of the remaining
Japanese navy. The first kamikaze air attacks occur during this battle.
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THE SUICIDE AIR OFFENSIVES OF WORLD WAR II
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March, 1945, U.S. forces take Iwo Jima. American planes firebomb Tokyo, hoping to force a surrender.
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On April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman became President of the U.S.
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Battle of Okinawa: In the final amphibious landing of the war, American forces launch a major attack against more than 130,000 defenders. American forces retake the island.
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American B-29s drop atomic bombs on
Hiroshima (August 6)
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and Nagasaki (August 9).
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Thermal Radiation Heat Burns (Nagasaki)A boy was exposed to thermal rays about 1.5 miles
from the hypocenter.
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VJ Day (September 2, 1945): Japan formally surrenders.