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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan achieved a
Japanese troops also invaded neutral Thailand and
long series of military successes.
pressured its leaders to declare war on the United
Guam, Wake Island, and Hong Kong fell to the
States and Great Britain. Only in mid-1942 were
Japanese, followed in the first half of 1942 by the Australian and New Zealander forces in New Guinea

Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia),
and British forces in India able to halt the Japanese
Malaya, Singapore, and Burma.
advance.

Allied forces slowly gained naval and air
The turning point in the Pacific war came with the American naval supremacy in the Pacific, and moved

victory in the Battle of Midway . The Japanese fleet methodically from island to island,
sustained heavy losses and was turned back. In August 1942, conquering them and often sustaining

American forces attacked the Japanese in the Solomon Islands, significant casualties. The Japanese,

forcing a costly withdrawal of Japanese forces from the island of however, successfully defended their

Guadalcanal in February 1943.
positions on the Chinese mainland until

, American forces
began retaking the Philippines from British forces recaptured Burma. In Despite these casualties

Japanese troops, who surrendered in early 1945, American forces suffered and suicidal Japanese air

August 1945. That same year, the heavy losses during the invasions of attacks, known as Kamikaze
United States Army Air Forces Iwo Jima (February) and Okinawa

launched a strategic bombing (April), an island of strategic attacks, American forces

campaign against Japan. importance off the coast of the conquered Okinawa
Japanese home islands.