U.S. were able to take these 2 islands at high costs Provided air bases to bomb Japan
U.S. military used Navajo Indians to send coded radio message Japanese never were able to break the coded messages
Invasion of Japan would be too costly president Truman- warned to surrender 1st dropped on Hiroshima 2nd was dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later
Manhattan Project was the U.S.'s secret program to build an atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer was the lead scientists took three years to build
U.S. Navy defeated the Japanese Major Turning point for the U.S. Americans broke the Japanese radio code and caught them by surprise U.S. started using the Island hopping strategy
Aug. 14, 1945, Japan accepted the U.S.'s terms for surrender Douglas MacArthur accepted surrender
1st major Japanese target in the U.S. Fought the Japanese for 6 months Eventually the Japanese gave up the islands U.S. used these islands to bomb other islands
U.S. Navy defeated the Japanese Major Turning point for the U.S. Americans broke the Japanese radio code and caught them by surprise U.S. started using the Island hopping strategy
1st major Japanese target in the U.S. Fought the Japanese for 6 months Eventually the Japanese gave up the islands U.S. used these islands to bomb other islands