War in the East (Japan)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 How the War Started | -Japanese goes into Korea and takes over (When my name was Keoko) -China fights a civil war against them -America gets frustrated and cuts off supplies -Japan gets mad and bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec 7th, 1941 |
| Corregidor | America and Phillipines try to hold up there, but they surrender due to lack of supplies |
| Bataan Death March | Americans and Phillipines were forced to walk this because they lost and they could be killed, and then America fully joins WWII |
| Atlantic Charter | FDR meets w/ Churchill and they decide to defeat Hitler first and then attack the Japanese |
| Lend Lease Program | The Americans get troops, but it will be a while before they can fight, so they loan supplies to the Allies so they can fight (they are all fighting against Germany & Italy) |
| Internment Camps | Japanese were sent here in America, like Concentration Camps |
| Manzoni | one of the Internment Camps |
| Pearl Harbor | the bombing in Hawaii that made the Americans go into the war. December 7th, 1941 |
| Battle of Midway | One of the three turning parts of the war. Code break shows that they want to get to Middway Island. American aircrafts are waiting for arrival. This is a good battle for the Americans because it helps them advance, and they destroy many Japanese ships that they cannot rebuild due to the lack of industrialization and lack of supplies. |
| Guadalcanal | August 1942 (in the textbook chapter) |
| Iwo Jima | Feb 1945 U.S. captures, where the five men (two die) hold up the American Flag |
| Okinawa | April 1945 |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Aug 6th and August 9th, 1945. They use an atomic bomb at these places using "Little Boy" and other bombs |
| V-J Day | "Victory Over Japan Day" the Americans beat the Japanese on AUgust 14th, 1945 but do not fully surrender until September 2. |
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