1. War in the Pacific

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

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

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

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

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

10. Hiroshima  Paul Tibbets - pilot  Enola Gay - plane  Aug 6, 1945  70,000 - 80,000 die immediately

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