US-Japan Turning Point (7 dez 1942 ano – 10 dez 1942 ano)

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Japan had already invaded Burma and was getting ready to attack India & Australia


Turning point:

- Americans stop Japan in the Coral Sea
- sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers

***Aircraft carriers were new WWII "superweapons"
- the US had 3 of them and the Japanese did not destroy them because they were not at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack
- conspiracy theory that FDR knew about the imminent Pearl Harbor attack but didn't prepare so people would go crazy about it

- then US begins island hopping
- begins with Guadacanal

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