Naval Battles
This battle to save Austrailia is also the first time naval forces fought without seeing each other
This was the first attack on a Japanese held island in the Pacific war. Americans were stranded when the Japanese drove the American fleet away.
Guadalcanal
This American general was forced to leave the Philippines but vowed to return in victory.
MacArthur
A resource rich area of China. It became a key objective for a Japanese invasion.
Manchuria
The top secret plan to build an atomic weapon was given this code name.
Manhattan Project
The Battle of Midway
Called the first attack on Japanese land, the island is very small, just large enough for an airfield. It is also known as the first amphibious American invasion.
Tarawa
This American naval leader was given command of the sea war in the Pacific.
Nimitz
This Chinese city was the site of brutal massacres of civilians by the Japanese army
Nanking
The first atomic bomb was dropped on this Japanese city.
Hiroshima
This battle to drive the Japanese from the Philippines saw the Japanese use kamikaze attackers for the first time.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
This island was a target for an American invasion because it allowed American planes to reach and bomb the Japanese mainland
Saipan
This Japanese military leader planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
Yamamoto
The American navy was moved to Pearl Harbor from this location as a way to be better prepared to respond to aggression by the Japanese
San Diego
An alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan.
Tripartite Treaty
This event brought America into World War 2
The attack at Pearl Harbor
This island gained fame for Americans raising a flag over Mount Suribachi
Iwo Jima
An American pilot, he led a bombing raid on Tokyo just months after Pearl Harbor for an American morale boost.
Doolitte
This was the site of a staged event where Japanese soldiers, dressed like Chinese, destroyed a railroad giving the Japanese reason to invade China
Mukden
The second Japanese city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it.
Nagasaki
This strategy, developed by Admiral Nimitz kept the Japanese guessing where American attacks would come from.
Island-hopping
Admiral Nimitz planned this strategy to target specific islands on the way to defeating the Japanese.
Island-hopping
He replaced Franklin Roosevelt as president of the U.S. when Roosevelt died.
Truman
The War Relocation Authority placed Japanese-Americans in these places to prevent espionage during the war.
Internment camps
American and Filipino prisoners of the Japanese were forced on this brutal route over days without food and water. Many were executed along the way.
Bataan Death March