Table of Contents

I.                Introduction

A.     Purpose and Major ideas

B.     Research Structure

II.             Back ground and History

A.     Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and Hawaii

B.     Battle of Wake Island

C.     Battle of Coral Sea

D.     Battle of Midway

E.      Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

F.      Battle of Attu

G.     Battle of Tarawa

H.     Battle of the Bismarck Sea

I.       Battle of the Philippine Sea

J.       Iwo Jima

K.     Battle of Okinawa

L.      The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

M.    Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri

I.Conclusion