Ch. 25 Sec. 3

A. As you read about the defeat of Japan and the end of the war, write notes to
describe important wartime and war-related events. (Leave the shaded box blank.)
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The War in the Pacific
Date and Place Leaders Involved What happened?
1. April 1942, Bataan-
2. June 1942, Midway- Chester Nimitz, Japanese lost four aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes
3. August 1942, Guadalcanal- Ralph Martin, 19,000 U.S. troops stormed the Solomon islands, 6 months long, U.S. victory
4. October 1944, Leyte Gulf- Charles Brown, Japanese lost 3 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 13 cruisers, 500 planes
5. March 1945, Iwo Jima- MacArthur, 20,500 japanese died, 6000 U.S. troops died, U.S. Victory
6. June 1945, Okinawa- Japanese lost 110,100 men, U.S. lost 7,600 men, U.S. victory
7. September 1945, Tokyo Bay-
The Science of War
Date and Place Leaders Involved What happened?
8. July 1945, Los Alamos- President Truman
9. August 1945, Hiroshima, Nagasaki- two atomic bombs were dropped killing over 200,000 people
Planning and Rebuilding for Peace
Date and Place Leaders Involved What happened?
10. February 1945, Yalta- Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Germany remained divided into 4 parts for a time, stalin agreed to free elections in Poland and other soviet occupied countries
11. April 1945, San Francisco- United Nations began
12. 1945–1949, Nuremberg- 12 nazi leaders were sentenced to death, 12 were put in prison