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-Aug. 14, 1945, Japan accepts U.S.'s terms for surrender. -Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific, Douglas MacArthur accepted the surrender.
-1st major Japanese target in U.S. -island hopping strategy. -Fought Japanese for over 6 months. -Eventually, Japanese gave up the islands. -U.S. (Allied) forces used this as a base to attack other imported Japanese target in the Pacific
-U.S. military able to take these 2 islands at a high cost. -Provided air bases for the U.S. to bomb Japan.
-Manhattan Project was the U.S.'s secret program to build an atomic bomb. -J. Robert Oppenheimer- Lead scientist. -Took 3 years to develop a working bomb.
-U.S. Navy defeated Japanese. -Major turning point for U.S. -Americans broke Japanese radio code & surprised them. -U.S. adopted island hopping strategy & slowly worked their way to Japan.
-Invasion of Japan would be too costly. -President Truman- Warned to surrender. -1st bomb dropped on Hiroshima. -2nd bomb dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later.
-U.S. military used Navajo Indians to send coded radio messages. -Japanese never able to break the coded messages.