1. War in the Pacific
Japan Germany Italy

2. Time Line 1941 December 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
December 9, China declares war on Japan.
December 10, Japanese invade the Philippines and also seize Guam.
December 23, General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan.

4. Time Line 1942
• January 7, Japanese attack Bataan in the Philippines.
January 18, German-Japanese-Italian military agreement.
March 18, Japanese internment.
April 1942 Doolittle raid of
April 10, Bataan Death March.
May 7-8, Japan’s first defeat Battle of the Coral Sea
June 4-5, Turning point in war U.S. victory in Battle of Midway
August 7, The first U.S. landing Guadalcanal- five months of bloody fighting.

5. Time Line 1943
• April 18, Eighteen P-38 fighters then locate and shoot down Yamamoto.
August 1/2 - PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, is rammed and sunk by the Japanese Cruiser

6. Time Line 1944
June 15/16 - The first bombing raid on Japan since the Doolittle raid
July 19, U.S. Marines invade Guam.
October 11, U.S. Air raids against Okinawa.
October Battle of Leyte Gulf results in a decisive U.S. Naval victory. The first Kamikaze
December 17, The U.S. Army Air Force begins preparations for dropping Atomic Bomb B-29s will drop bomb.

7. Time Line 1945
January 3, Gen. MacArthur is placed in command of ground forces and Nimitz in command of naval forces January 4, British occupy Akyab in Burma.
February 19, U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima.
April 1, The final amphibious landing of U.S. Tenth Army invades Okinawa.
April 12, President Roosevelt dies
May 8, Victory in Europe Day.
June 9, Japanese Premier Suzuki Japan will fight to end .

8. Time Line 1945 July 5, 1945 - Liberation of Philippines declared.
July 16, First Atomic Bomb is successfully tested in the U.S.
July 26, Components of the Atomic Bomb "Little Boy" are unloaded at Tinian Island
July 29, A Japanese submarine sinks the Cruiser INDIANAPOLIS
August 6, First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets.
August 8, U.S.S.R. declares war on Japan.
August 9, Second Atomic Bomb Nagasaki.
September 2, Japanese surrender VJ Day.