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| the last land route into China |
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| Japanesse sunk American and Dutch vessels to take over the East Indies |
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| Colonel "Jimmy" Doolittle |
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| led 16 American B-25 bonbers from the aircraft carrier Hornet in a bombing raid over Tokyo and other Japanese cities |
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| the first naval battle in history in which the opposing vessels did not sight one another |
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| the US Navy broke the back of the Japanese fleet |
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| the Aleutian islands, the only territory in North America invaded by the Axis powers |
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| a strategy whereby only the most important islands would be assaulted in order to establish air and naval bases for the drive to Japan |
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| fought to take the Solomons |
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| fought to take the Solomons |
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| the commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Fleet |
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| in the Gilbert Islands, the Americans would have an air base from which they could bomb Japanese postions |
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| in the Marianna Islands, American attacked Japan here |
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| Battle of the Philippine Sea |
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| the Japenese lost 4 aircraft carriers and 400 planes |
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| the Japanese lost almost all of their remaining ships and planes |
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| became president after Roosevelt died |
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| calling upon the Japanese to surrender unconditionally and to withdraw to the home islands |
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| President Truman planned to use this against Japan |
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| the largest research and scientific effort of its day |
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| wrote a letter to President Rossevelt warning him that Germans might produce an atomic weapon and the US should begin research in this area |
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| Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| these scientists led to the development of the atomic bomb |
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| V-J Day, Victory of Japan Day |
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