Outline of Events in WWII I.December, 1941 a. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Outline of Events in WWIII.December, 1941

a. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

I.December, 1941

b. Japan invades Philippines, Guam, Burma, Hong Kong, and Borneo

II. January, 1942

a. Germany-Japan-Italy military agreement signed in Berlin

b. Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Solomon Islands

III. February, 1942

a. Japanese invade Singapore, Marshall Islands

III. February, 1942

b. Japan attacks U.S. mainland in California

c. Japan attacks Australia

IV. 1942 - continued

a. April – Doolittle Raid

- Bataan Death March

Philippines

Bataan Death March

IV. 1942 - continued

b. May – Battle of Coral Sea

c. June – Japan invades

Aleutian Islands .

IV. 1942 - continued

d. Battle of

Midway won – turning point

IV. 1942 - continued

e. August – U.S. Marines land

in Guadalcanal

f. December – Japanese

withdrawal from Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal

Sea Battles

Sea Battles

V. 1943

a. March – U.S. victory at

Battle of Bismarck Sea

b. June – U.S. begin Submarine

attacks on Japanese shipping

V. 1943 - continued

c. Oct. - Japanese execute

American POW’s on

Wake Island

d. Nov. – U.S. troops invade

Gilbert Islands

Land Battles on Pacific Islands

Land Battles on Pacific Islands

VI. 1944

a. Jan. – U.S. troops invade

Marshall Islands

b. June - The "Marianas

Turkey Shoot” 220 / 20

VI. 1944

c. July – Guam invasion

VI. 1944

d. Oct. – first Kamikaze's used against U.S. warships

Kamikaze attacks – 2,250 in all

VII. 1945

a. Feb. -U.S. invades Iwo Jima

VII. 1945

b. May – Japan withdrawals

from China

VII. 1945

c. July – Philippines recaptured

"I have returned" — General MacArthur returns to the Philippines with Philippine President Sergio Osmena to his right,

VII. 1945

d. Aug.-Atomic bomb

dropped on

Hiroshima

& Nagasaki

Nuclear Bomb

tested in New Mexico – July 16, 1945

HIROSHIMA – Aug. 7, 1945

NAGASAKI – Aug. 11, 1945

Gen. MacAurthur signs Peace Treaty

VII. 1945

e. Aug.14 – Japan surrenders