"A Gareth Stevens timeline series"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The approach of war -- Pearl Harbor -- Japan's Asian advance -- Fall of the Philippines -- The Battle of the Coral Sea -- The Battle of Midway -- Island hopping -- The Battle of Leyte Gulf -- Iwo Jima and Okinawa -- The surrender of Japan -- Glossary.
Summary:
Follows the chronological events of World War II in the Pacific theater, from the 1920s when Japan began taking land in China to the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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