Chapter 17 Section 3

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Chapter 17Section 3

• The War in the Pacific

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April 1942, Bataan

• Leader Douglas MacArthur
• What Happen?
• Allies held out for 4 months against invading
  Japanese forces
• Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave and he said
  I shall return

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June 1942, Midway

• Leader Chester Nimitz
• What Happen?
• Americans turned back a Japanese invasion force
  and then headed to Hawaii

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August 1942, Guadalcanal

• Leader MacArthur
• What Happen?
• Americans dealt Japan its 1st defeat on land

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October 1944, Leyte Gulf

• Leader MacArthur
• What Happen?
• Americans retook the Philippines and dealt a blow
  to the Japanese

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March 1945, Iwo Jima

• Leader MacArthur
• What Happen?
• Allies took the Island from Japan

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June 1945, Okinawa

• Leader MacArthur
• What Happen?
• Allies took the Island from Japan
• 8,000 U.S. soldiers died

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September 1945, Tokyo Bay

• Leader Hirohito/MacArthur
• What Happen?
• Japan formally surrendered

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July 1945, Los Alamos

• Leader J. Robert Oppenheimer
• What Happen?
• 1st Atomic Bomb was built successfully completing
  the Manhattan Project

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August 1945, Hiroshima, Nagasaki

• Leader Truman
• What Happen?
• 1st Atomic Bombs were dropped

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February 1945, Yalta

• Leaders Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill (Yalta
  Conference)
• What Happen?
• Allied leaders made important decisions about the
  postwar world

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April 1945, San Francisco

• Leader The United Nations
• What Happen?
• United Nations was established

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1945-1949, Nuremberg

• Leader Supreme Court Justice Jackson
• What Happen?
• Nuremberg Trials, Nazi leaders were tried for
  wartime crimes

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