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Showdown between US and Japan

McArthur retreated to Australia when Japan occupied the Philippines

Dec. 1941 – 42 Japan invaded and occupied: The Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and Dutch East Indies Dec. 7, 1941 –Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor (Dec. 8 US declared war on Japan) May 8, 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea (East of Australia) -First victory for the Allies -Battleships verses airplanes

Battle of Midway “June 7, 1942”: Stopped Japanese threat to Hawaii 1,000 miles west of Hawaii Allies victorious and destroyed Japan’s naval superiority

2 Prong attack Charles Nimitz Mc Arthur

Allies Advance to Japan Island Hopping – to defeat Japanese through the Pacific Islands August 1942- Launched attack against Guadalcanal (area between New Guinea and Solomon Island) *6 months of land, air, and sea battles Casualties ran high-

Guadalcanal Order of Battle Empire of Japan 36,200 2 battleships 6 heavy cruisers 4 light cruisers 16 destroyers 11 transports Allied Powers (United States Marine Corps, United States Army) 60,000 1 carrier 2 battleships 2 heavy cruisers 3 light cruisers 12 destroyers Guadalcanal Casualties Allied Powers 7,100 dead 4 captured 29 ships lost 615 aircraft lost Empire of Japan 31,000 dead 1,000 captured 38 ships lost 683–880 aircraft los

Allies Advance to Japan Battle for the Island of Iwo Jima & Okinawa (south Japan) -Air bases to bomb Japan *Kamikaze pilots crashed planes into US ships Casulty at Iwo Jima – 5,000 US troops killed; 15,000 wounded Casualty at Okinawa- 12,500 killed Japanese—120,000 killed; 42,000 Okinawans US Air raids-The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on 18 April 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo; Osaka was bombed the next day and Kobe four days later. The death toll from the raids is estimated in the range of 300,000.

V-J Day August 6, 1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima August 9th –Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki 14th of August- Japan surrendered; the emperor announced defeat; surrendered signed on the battleship “Missouri in Tokyo Bay”