WWII: Pacific Theater
Battle/Date
Battle of Midway,
What happened?
-U.S. surprise bombing on Japanese
Importance
Turning point of war in the
June 1942
cities
Pacific: America begins to
-Japan sent all of their military to
push Japan back
Midway to launch attack on US
Fleet
-U.S. Fleet was waiting for the
Japanese to show up
-US defeated the Japanese in
battle
Bombing of
Emperor surrendered: End
Hiroshima and
-Atomic bomb was dropped on
Nagasaki, August
Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and
1945
Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
-Emperor wanted to surrender
but the Japanese military didn’t
want to surrender
-Eventually, the Emperor did
surrender to the US
of the War in the Pacific