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- created strategy of "island hopping"
- targeted the island of Guadalcanal
- fought for six months
- Japanese abandoned "the island of death"

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- 1,500 miles away
- key American Airfield
- US knew about the attack
- When the first plane came, the US planes came and attacked from where they were hiding
- destroyed 332 Japanese planes, all four aircraft carriers, and a support ship
- turned the tide of the war for the Allies

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- May 4-8, 1942
- airplanes took off from huge aircraft carriers and attacked opposing ships
- new form of naval battle
- kept Japanese from advancing south

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- December 7, 1941-- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Japanese planned major attacks in British and Dutch territory at the same time to throw off the US
- sunk and damaged 19 ships
- killed 2,300 Americans killed
- 1,100 wounded
- request for war on Japan accepted

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- Japan seized British colony of Wake and US territory, Guam

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- America and Australia
- 16 B-25 bombers bombed Tokyo and other major Japanese cities
- didn't make a significant difference
- Doolittle's Raid: made Japan seem vulnerable for attack

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- Captured Philippines
- took Bataan Peninsula, Corregidor
- Hong Kong, Malaya
- Dutch East Indies
- Burma
- planned strike against India
- had 1 million miles of Asian land