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| The last land route into China |
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| Most of the American and Dutch vessels were sunk and allowed the Japanese to complete their conquest of the Dutch East Indies |
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| Led 16 American B-25 Bombers from the aircraft carrier Hornet in a bombing raid over Tokyo and other Japanese cities |
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| The first naval battle in history in which the opposing vessels did not sight one another |
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| The U. S. Navy broke the back of the Japanese fleet |
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| The only territory in North America invaded by the Axis powers |
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| Fought to take the Solomon islands from the Japanese |
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| The Commander in chief of the U. S. Pacific Fleet |
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The Americans planned to capture this island to have an air base in their island-hopping campaign
In the Gilbert Islands |
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| The island that contained the major battle with the Japanese located in the Mariana Islands |
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| Battle of the Philippine Sea |
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| The Japanese made a desperate attempt to stop the invasion of Saipan and lost 4 aircraft carriers and 400 planes |
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| The Japanese lost almost all of their remaining ships and planes |
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| Became President after Roosevelt died from a stroke |
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| The British Prime Minister who met in Potsdam Germany with Truman and Stalin |
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| Issued to call upon the Japanese to surrender unconditionally |
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| The largest research and scientific effort of its day and possessed the atomic |
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| Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| Three Jewish men who helped develop the atomic bomb |
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