Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign

The Volcano and Ryūkyū Islands campaign was a series of battles and engagements between Allied forces and Imperial Japanese forces in the Pacific Ocean campaign of World War II between January and June, 1945. the campaign took place in the Volcano and Ryukyu island groups. The two main land battles in the campaign were the Battle of Iwo Jima (February 16-March 26, 1945) and the Battle of Okinawa (April 1-June 21, 1945). One major naval battle occurred, called Operation Ten-Go (April 7, 1945) after the operational title given to it by the Japanese. The campaign was part of the Allied Japan campaign intended to provide staging areas for an invasion of Japan as well as supporting aerial bombardment and a naval blockade of the Japanese mainland. The dropping of atomic weapons on two Japanese cities, however, caused the Japanese government to surrender without an armed invasion being necessary.

Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis powers during the Second World War. Within the ranks of the Allied powers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom were known as "The Big Three." U.S.
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The Empire of Japan (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國; Shinjitai: 大日本帝国; pronounced Dai Nippon Teikoku; officially Empire of Greater Japan
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The Pacific Ocean theater was one of four major theaters during the Pacific War, between 1942 and 1945. It takes its name from the major Allied command in the theater, known simply as "Pacific Ocean Areas". The theater included most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands.
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China
France
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The Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島 Ogasawara Shotō
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The Ryukyu Islands, in Japanese called the Nansei Islands (南西諸島
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Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the United States and Japan in February and March 1945, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The U.S. invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was aimed at capturing the airfields on Iwo Jima.
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1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.

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Battle of Okinawa, fought on the Japanese island of Okinawa, was the largest amphibious assault during the Pacific campaigns of World War II.^[1] It lasted from late March through June 1945.
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Operation Ten-Go (Kyūjitai: 天號作戰, Shinjitai: 天号作戦 ten-gō sakusen), also referred to as Ten-ichi-go (meaning
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Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II. The operation was cancelled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan.
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atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman.
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surrender of Japan in August 1945 brought World War II to a close. On August 10, 1945, after the invasion of Manchuria by the Soviet Union and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's leaders at the Imperial conference (gozenkaigi
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Operation Ten-Go (Kyūjitai: 天號作戰, Shinjitai: 天号作戦 ten-gō sakusen), also referred to as Ten-ichi-go (meaning
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There were many air raids on Japan by Allied aircraft during World War II.

The Home Islands of the Empire of Japan were defended by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.
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bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces took place during the Pacific campaigns of World War II.

Doolittle Raid

Main article: Doolittle Raid

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Operation Starvation was an American mining operation conducted in World War II by the Army Air Force, in which vital water routes and ports of Japan were mined by air in order to disrupt enemy shipping.
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