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World War 2 the Pacific War 1941-1945 Our team picked WW2 because it was interesting to compare the war then and the war now.Not many people are alive now to talk about WW2 but I find it interesting to hear their stories.Many of the conflicts in the Pacific war mirror what we are seeing in the war today like torture, hostages, suicide bombers and post war stress.



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**__Timeline: __** December 7, 1941- § Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor § Japan Declares War. Bombs Philippines & invades Siam, Malaya, Hong Kong

December 11 to December 23, 1941- § Japan invades Burma, Borneo, Philippines & Wake Island

December 25, 1941- § Hong Kong surrenders

January 11, 1942 – § Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo

January 27, 1942 – § First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine

February 27, 1942 – § [|Battle of Java Sea]

April 22, 1943 – § Japan announces captured Allied pilots will be given "one way tickets to hell."

July 8, 1943 – § B-24 Liberators flying from Midway bomb Japanese on Wake Island

July 9, 1943 – § Allies invade Sicily

June 6, 1944 – § D-Day

June 15, 1944 – § B-29 bomb Japan from China

April 12, 1945 – § President Roosevelt dies, succeeded by Harry S. Truman

May 8, 1945 – § Victory in Europe Day

July 10, 1945 – <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ 1,000 bomber raids against Japan begin

August 6, 1945 – <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

August 9, 1945 – <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ Second Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">**__ People. Places & Events __** <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msobidifontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msolist: Ignore;">1. Dec. 7 1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; text-decoration: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msobidifontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msolist: Ignore;">2. December 23, 1941: General Douglas MacArthur- Begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan, Japanese takes Wake Island.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msobidifontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msolist: Ignore;">3. June 4 -7 1942: Battle of Midway.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msobidifontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msolist: Ignore;">4. November 1943 : Island Hopping- A strategy used in the Pacific war where islands were held by allied forces to beat the Japanese.

//<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msobidifontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msolist: Ignore; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;">5. // June 6 1944: ** - ** Eisenhower decided to change the date for D-Day to June 6 <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msobidifontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msolist: Ignore;">6. August 6 & 9 1945: Cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki were damaged by the first atomic bombs used in the war.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msobidifontfamily: 'Tempus Sans ITC'; msolist: Ignore;">7. August 14 1945: The Japanese decided to surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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