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Strategies:
-Weaken American military
-Japan hoped that the US would take long to recover

Tactics:
-Attacked US naval base
-Destroyed 188 aircraft
-Damaged ships and tanks

Technology: air warfare, aircraft carriers

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Strategies:
-Make Japan pull out of the war

Tactics:
-Scaring Japan by using nuclear bomb

Technology:
-Nuclear warfare

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Manchuria Yusitan, Ghulja, Ili, China (Soviet Invasion of the Japanese Empire 1945)

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Manchuria Yusitan, Ghulja, Ili, China (Soviet Invasion of the Japanese Empire 1945)

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Strategies:
-Make Japan pull out of war

Tactics:
-Soviets invaded Japan simultaneously on three fronts in the east, west and north of Manchuria, the day after the declaration of war.

Technology: Invasion

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Strategy:
-Japan attacking Thailand on December 8th provided them easier control over Malaya and Burma

Tactics:
battled for hours
Technology: aircraft carriers

-Japan gained easier control to northern Malaya and Burma
-Declare war against the US
-Japan attacking Thailand on December 8th provided them easier control over Malaya and Burma
-Now that Japan was allied with Thailand they had declared war on Britian and the US.

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Santa Cruz, CA (Battle of Santa Cruz October 1942)

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Santa Cruz, CA (Battle of Santa Cruz October 1942)

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Strategy
-Japan attempted to again resupply its troops at Guadalcanal at the end of October

Tactics:
Sending another large fleet.

Technology:
sub warfare

-Resulted in battle
-Two Japanese ships destroyed
-US navy suffered more severely in short term because one US ship was heavily damaged and the other was destroyed
-For a period of time the US had no carriers operational in the Pacific Ocean
-Naval marines were left vulnerable
-Japanese carriers were not easily replaced

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Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands (Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942)

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Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands (Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942)

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Strategy:
-Japans final attempt to resupply troops on Guadalcanal

Tactics:
-Seized Japanese airfield

Technology: code breaking

-Led to decision in December 1942 to evacuate

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Strategy:
-The IJN hoped to occupy Midway and lure the US away from Hawaii where it was being heavily protected by aircraft

Tactics:
-4 Japanese carriers attacked Midway

Technology:
air warfare
-In early June, 1942 Japan had taken control over several of the Aleutian islands, part of the US territory of Alaska.
-This may have been a division of a larger attack on Midway Atoll, US-held islands in the Pacific with an airfield about 2100km from Pearl Harbor.
-US deciphered Japanese codes and moved to intercept the fleet before it established its own aircraft at Midway.
-4 Japanese carriers attacked Midway
-This was a turning point in the Pacific war because it was the US's first real win against the Japanese Navy.
-After battle Japan had 6 carriers left in the Pacific and lacked the industrial capacity and resources to rebuild the lost ships
-Loss prevented the IJN from making any attack on US forces for months

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Strategy:
US invade Philippians to stop them from supplying Japan

Tactics:
-Control the archipelago would enable US aircraft and subs to damage Japanese economy
Technology: Bombing japan

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Strategy:
US battling Japan for Saipan

Tactics: US bombers attacked Japanese capital

Technology: Bombing Japan

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Caroline Island, Kiribati, (February 17-18, 1944)

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Caroline Island, Kiribati, (February 17-18, 1944)

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Strategy:
US had to eliminate Japanese threat so the Marshal islands could be captures
Tactics:
Used arms and forced attacks
Technology: island hopping

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Strategy:
Slow the US invasion in the Philippines

Tactics:
-Fought US fleet in April 1945, before completely ceasing operations.
-First use of Kamikaze attacks

Technology:
Kamikaze attacks