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
NAGASAKI – Aug. 11, 1945
Gen. MacAurthur signs Peace Treaty
VII. 1945
e. Aug.14 – Japan surrenders
