Pacific War summary. December 7th, 1941 began World War 2 with the attack of the Japanese naval aviation against the American port, Pearl Harbor. The goal of the Japanese was to gain control of eastern Asia and the western Pacific. The Japanese believed that once the lands were under their control, with allies, and America, they would be able to sue for peace. But Japan did not see that it caused Americans to be angry and the …showed first 75 words of 1067 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1067 total…defeats: In Burma the British Army recaptured Rangoon and on Okinawa and the Americans stopping the Japanese forces. August 6 the B-29 bomber carried the new atomic bomb and dropped it on Hiroshima then another over Nagasaki. The entry of Russia into the war and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki told the Japanese that this was the end. On August 15, 1945 the Emperor announced that Japan was surrendering "in order to save mankind" from nuclear destruction.