Turning Points In Ww2

The sources that I selected are the battle of midway, kamikaze attack, and the first atomic bomb blast. They describe some of the events that happen battles during World War 2, how the war ended and some major attacks. These events happen during the 1940’s in different parts of the world. They are consider major events during the war and also became important turning points for the U.S. during the war. The first primary source is The Battle of Midway and it happened in 1942. During this time the perceptions of the Japanese military was demolished by the Doolittle raid. They thought that their homeland was immune from air attack and in order to protect Japan they had to extend their defensive perimeter eastward to a tiny island called Midway. Midway was thousands of miles from Hawaii and it was where the U.S. aircraft stationed was located. The Japanese really wanted to get control of this island to protect Japan from air attack so they threw most of the imperial fleet into this battle but the Americans had intercepted the Japanese code and knew something was about to happen. On June 4 the Americans discovered the Japanese fleet northeast of midway after this a quick air battle developed. This was the turning point the
Kamikaze is the name given by Japan in the middle of the thirteen century when the Mongol fleet sailed to invade Japan. As they were approaching the Japanese coast some ugly winds were also approaching and smashed the Mongol ships they called it Kamikaze which means divine wind. During the world war two the Americans were moving slowly through the pacific to the Japanese islands and that’s when the Japanese called the Kamikaze again for help. This time it wouldn’t be the divine wind now it was suicidal pilots who were going to crash their planes to the U.S. ships in order to destroy them. This was Japanese weapon that the U.S. fear the most because they were sacrifing their