The Pacific War

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The Pacific War
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1941

• December 7 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
• December 10 Japanese invade the Philippines and
  seize Guam.
• December 22 Japanese invade Luzon in the
  Philippines.

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Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor
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1942

• January 7 Japanese attack Bataan in the
  Philippines.
• February 22 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the
  Philippines.
• June 4 U.S. defeats Japanese at the Battle of
  Midway. Turning point in the Pacific War.

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1943

• January 2 Allies take Buna in New Guinea.
• February 9 Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal
  ends.
• April 18 Japanese General Yamamato is killed
  when his plane is shot down by U.S. pilots in
  Solomon Islands.

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General Yamamato
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1944

• February 1-7 U.S. troops take control of
  Marshall Islands.
• July 19-27 U.S. troops take control of Guam.
• October 11 U.S. launches air raids over Okinawa,
  Japan.
• October 25 First Kamikaze attacks occur against
  U.S. warships in Leyte Gulf.

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Kamikaze Pilot
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1945

• U.S. 6th Army invades Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in
  the Philippines.
• August 6 First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
• August 9 Second atomic bomb is dropped on
  Nagasaki.
• September 2 Formal Japanese surrender on board
  the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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The First Atomic Bomb That was Dropped on
Hiroshima