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THE PACIFIC WAR Campaign of island hopping
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Japan at the height of power - 1942
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Bataan Death March, 1942 Philippine Islands
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Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway June 1942 http://www.navy.mil/midway/MidwayMap.html Turned the tide in the Pacific in favor of the Allies
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Where is Iwo Jima?
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Sands of Iwo Jima, 1945
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Raising the flag on Iwo Jima
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Iwo Jima memorial
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Iwo Jima 36 days of combat 7000 US soldiers killed 22,000 Japanese- most of them killed
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Okinawa April 1945 180,000 Americans landed Japanese fight to the end- 110,000 soldiers
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Japanese Internment Camps
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February 19, 1942: FDR signed Executive Order 9066 The forcible roundup of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry.
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To end the war in the Pacific Atomic bomb: Harry S. Truman August 6: Hiroshima “Little Boy” August 9: Nagasaki “Fat Man” August 14: Japan surrendered September 2, 1945: VJ Day
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