WWII Battles in the Pacific

This was the first battle the US attacked Japan

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of Okinawa

In this battle, Americans broke the Japanese naval code and were able to surprise attack them

• Battle of the Philippine Sea

• Battle of Coral Sea

• Battle of Saipan

• Battle of Midway

The Japanese awakened the "sleeping giant" in this battle. We joined WWII the next day.

• Pearl Harbor

• Doolittle Raid

• Battle of Saipan

• Battle of Guadalcanal

The Japanese suffered their first WWII defeat that lost land in this battle

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of Saipan

This battle is memorialized with a monument in Washington D.C.

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Midway

• Pearl Harbor

This battle was a turning point in the war for the Allies

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of Saipan

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of Midway

This battle included the largest bonzai attack of WWII

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of Saipan

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Midway

What happened on December 7, 1941?

• Pearl Harbor was bombed

• US won the Battle of Midway

• US Marines captured the island of Okinawa

• US drops a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima

Which US aircraft carrier proved to be very helpful in the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal?

• USS Oklahoma

• USS Arizona

• USS Yorktown

• USS Enterprise

Japan planned to use this island as a way to invade New Guinea and eventually Australia

• Okinawa

• Saipan

• Guadalcanal

• Midway