War in the Pacific. Battle of Coral Sea  Following bombing of Tokyo  Americans and Australians  Planes taking off attack ships  Stop Japanese.

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War in the Pacific

Battle of Coral Sea  Following bombing of Tokyo  Americans and Australians  Planes taking off attack ships  Stop Japanese advancement

Guadalcanal  Douglas MacArthur  "island hopping"  American victory

Iwo Jima  36 days  6300 deaths  pillboxes  Flag raising  American victory

Okinawa  over 100,000 Japanese deaths  12,000 American deaths  Bloodiest battle

Manhattan Project  Oppenheimer  Atomic bomb  July 6, 1945  first exploded as warning  Japanese do not respond

Hiroshima  Paul Tibbets - pilot  Enola Gay - plane  Aug 6, 1945  70, ,000 die immediately

Nagasaki  Aug 9, 1945  70,000 killed instantly  MANY more of the years from radiation poisoning