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12 Cards in this Set
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April 1942, Bataan
Japan abandoned what they had. Allies took over. |
Douglas MacArthur
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June 1942, Midway (In Hawaii)
Turning point in the war. |
Chester Nimitz
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August 1942, Guadalcanal
First defeat on land. First allie defense. |
MacArthur
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October 1944, Leyte Gulf
Tested Kamikaze. Destroyed themselves. |
MacArthur
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March 1945, Iwo Jima
Allies took Japanese islands. 6000 marines died. Airplane bombs heavily loaded bombers. |
MacArthur
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June 1945, Okinawa
5000 seamen died. Sunk 30 ships. Kamikaze. Allies won. |
MacArthur
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September 1945, Tokyo Bay
Formal Surrender. |
Hirohito and MacArthur
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July 1945, Los Alamos
First atomic bombs built. |
Oppenheimer
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August 1945, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
Atomic bombs. 200000 dead. First two atomic bomb zones. |
President Truman and Emperor Hirohito
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February 1945, Yalta
Conference. Divided Germany. Stalin joins war. Post war ideas. |
Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt
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April 1945, San Francisco
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United Nations was established
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1945-1949, Nuremberg
Nazis had trial |
Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill
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