1. Chapter 17 Section 3
The War in the Pacific

2. 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”

3. June 1942, Midway Leader: Chester Nimitz What Happen?
Americans turned back a Japanese invasion force and then headed to Hawaii

6. August 1942, Guadalcanal
Leader: MacArthur
What Happen?
Americans dealt Japan its 1st defeat on land

8. October 1944, Leyte Gulf Leader: MacArthur What Happen?
Americans retook the Philippines and dealt a blow to the Japanese

9. Allies took the Island from Japan
March 1945, Iwo Jima
Leader: MacArthur
What Happen?
Allies took the Island from Japan

11. June 1945, Okinawa Leader: MacArthur What Happen?
Allies took the Island from Japan
8,000 U.S. soldiers died

12. Leader: Hirohito/MacArthur What Happen?
September 1945, Tokyo Bay
Leader: Hirohito/MacArthur
What Happen?
Japan formally surrendered

13. July 1945, Los Alamos Leader: J. Robert Oppenheimer What Happen?
1st Atomic Bomb was built successfully completing the Manhattan Project

14. August 1945, Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Leader: Truman
What Happen?
1st Atomic Bombs were dropped

15. February 1945, Yalta
Leaders: Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill (Yalta Conference)
What Happen?
Allied leaders made important decisions about the postwar world

17. April 1945, San Francisco Leader: The United Nations What Happen?
United Nations was established

18. 1945-1949, Nuremberg Leader: Supreme Court Justice Jackson
What Happen?
Nuremberg Trials, Nazi leaders were tried for wartime crimes