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Chapter 17 Section 3: The War in the Pacific
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☆☆☆☆☆In command of Allied forces on the islands.
Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led 16 bombers on a bombing raid through Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
Allies stopped the Japanese drive toward Australia in five days.
The turning point in the Pacific War. Allies destroyed 4 aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes.
Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific.
Moving from island to island
Japanese Suicide-plane attacks on Allied ships. The planes dive-bombed and crashed into Allied boats.
February-March 1945. Over 6,000 Marines died taking this island. Over 20,700 Japanese soldiers tried to defend the Island, and only 200 survived.
April-June 1945. 7,600 Americans died taking the island, and 110,000 Japanese died trying to defend it.
Directed research in Project Manhattan.
August 6, 1945. An atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, an important Japanese military center.
Name of the bomber that dropped Little Boy over Hiroshima.
August 9, 1945. Another atomic bomb, code-named "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki.
September 2, 1945. Where the Japanese Emperor met to surrender.
February 1945. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to toast to the defeat of Germany. They discussed the fate of Germany postwar.
International conference taking place in San Francisco.
The Allies put 24 surviving Nazi leaders on trial for crimes against humanity, crimes against the peace, and war crimes.
