- Alamo Scouts: When (and why) formed
- Arizona: Exploded U.S. Navy ship which personifies the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor
- Banzai Charge: Japanese war tactics
- Bataan, Death March: Filipino and American forces in harm's way
- Cabanatuan/O'Donnell POW Camps: Photographs from national archives
- Cabanatuan Rescue: The plan to rescue Batan death-march survivors
- Captured Japanese Photos: From the death march
- Death at Camp O'Donnell: Captives endure worsening misery or death
- Children in War: From collecting scraps to growing "victory gardens," children helped in the war effort
- Code Talkers: Navajo code, which the Japanese never broke, helped to win the war in the Pacific
- Corregidor, Falls - A thousand Japanese invaders defeat 15,000 abandoned defenders
- Corregidor, Pleas for Help Ignored: MacArthur pleas for help but none is forthcoming
- Declaration of War: President Roosevelt's speech, 8 December 1941
- Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders: Flew land-based planes from aircraft carrier
- Doolittle's Raiders: War momentum turns against Japan
- Empire: Japanese expansion in Pacific region
- Friends at Odds: Why were Japan and America at odds?
- Hari-Kari: Japanese suicide attacks
- Hiroshima: First use of atomic bomb
- B-29, Enola Gay: Dropped bomb on Hiroshima
- B-29, Pilot: Col. Paul W. Tibbets
- Bomb Components: Delivered by USS Indianapolis
- Bomb Run, Initiation Point: Tinian Island
- Casualties: Deaths, injuries and radiation sickness
- Detonation, Specifics: 1,870 feet above ground, 43 seconds post-release
- Ground zero: Aioli Bridge
- Press Release: President Truman to American public
- Reason to Use: President Truman's reasons
- Request to Drop: Original document, Henry Stimson to Truman
- Uranium Bomb: Called "Little Boy"
- Written Approval: By President Truman
- Incendiary (fire) Bombs over Tokyo: Eyewitness accounts of death and devastation
- Incendiary (fire) Bombs over Tokyo: Photos from national archives
- Intercepted Japanese Messages: Pointed to likely war
- Internment Camps: Japanese-Americans forced to relocate
- Closing Businesses: Photos from national archives
- Congressman's Idea: Presidential approval - (see fourth paragraph)
- Conviction Overturned: Using guise of national security, government violated Japanese-American's rights
- Evacuees: Facts and photographs
- Executive Order 9066: American citizens "excluded" from homes/businesses
- Internment Camps: Photographs from national archives
- Korematsu, Fred: Guilty of ignoring exclusion order
- Leaving Home: Photographs from the national archives
- Legalized Racism: Justice Frank Murphy, dissent
- Manzanar: California internment camp
- Minidoka: Idaho internment camp
- No Threat to West Coast Security: U.S. government suppressed its own findings
- Poston: Arizona internment camp
- Topaz: Utah internment camp
- Tule Lake: A "segregation center"
- Iwo Jima, Battle of: Pivotal victory in the Pacific
- Amphibious Landing: Difficult to get everything, and everyone, ashore
- Armada Arrives: 880 American vessels
- Battle Scenes: Official photos from national archives and U.S. Marines
- Bombardment: Japanese reaction to pre-invasion shelling
- Code-talkers (Navajo): "Operating around the clock"
- "Courageous battle vow" - Japanese vow to fight
- D-Day on Iwo Jima: 19 February 1945
- Defenses: Japanese-created defenses, Iwo Jima Island
- Flag Raisers: Identities
- Flag raisers: Deaths of
- Flag-raising Photograph: Original flag-raising by U.S. Marines
- Flag-raising Photograph: Famous picture was of a replacement flag
- Letters from Iwo Jima: Letters, left behind on Iwo Jima, from Japanese soldiers to their loved ones
- Medal of Honor Recipients: Includes pictures and narratives
- Pacific Island: Owned by Japan, so fiercely defended
- Strategic Value: Why defending/capturing Iwo Jima was important
- Suribachi: Dormant volcano
- "Kill-All Policy" - Exhibit 2015 (Tokyo War Crimes Trial)
- Nagasaki: Second Use of Atomic Bomb
- B-29, Bockscar: Dropped bomb on Nagasaki
- B-29, Pilot: Major Charles Sweeney
- Casualties: Deaths, injuries and radiation sickness
- Damage: Property
- Effects: Of ground explosion on plane
- Plutonium Bomb: Called "Fat Man" - (see last paragraph)
- Press Release: President Truman to American people
- Reason to Use: President Truman's reasons
- Nanking Massacre
- All Captives Slain: Eyewitness account
- Casualties: Cables Discussing - (see paragraphs three and four)
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Photos: Graphic evidence - (see bullet points)
- Navajo Code: The code, created by Navajo Marines, which helped to defeat the Japanese
- Navajo Code Talkers: The men who created the unbroken code
- Occupation of Japan: Post-war, McArthur in charge
- Palawan Massacre: A survivor's horrific story
- Pearl Harbor: Surprise attack on U.S. Naval forces/ships in Hawaii
- Akagi: Japanese flag ship - (see fifth paragraph)
- Arizona: Bombed by Petty Officer Noboru Kanai
- Attack: Planned by Minoru Genda
- Command Message: "Air Raid on Pearl Harbor. This is not Drill" - (see last two paragraphs for original)
- "Date which will live in infamy" - Original manuscript (which substitues "infamy" for "world history) and audio/video clips
- FDR Message to Churchill: Secret 30 June 1949 memo - fleet at Pearl "vital"
- Impact, Pearl Harbor Attack: Changed American attitudes about involvement in WWII
- Issues Before Attack: Dispute over U.S. providing Japan with oil
- Japanese Spy: Prepared meticulous maps of Pearl Harbor and ship locations - (see last two paragraphs)
- Martin-Bellinger Report: Pearl vulnerable to "dawn attack" - (see fifth paragraph)
- Mini-submarines in the Harbor: Photographs, taken by Japanese pilots, from national archives - (see third paragraph from bottom)
- Negotiations Fail: Japanese fleet secretly leaves Hitokappu Bay
- Negotiations Fail: Oil embargo (by U.S. against Japan) continues
- Opana Point Radar Readings: New to military, radar results (of approaching Japanese planes) misunderstood
- Pearl Harbor Hearings: Why was America unprepared?
- To ra! To ra! To ra! - Japanese report of attack - meaning "success without resistance"
- Warnings: Potential of attack
- Philippines: Americans abandoned by their government
- Philippines: FDR states no surrender while resistance possible
- Philippines: Japan disregards non-fortification Clause (1921 treaty):
- Philippines: Prisoners of war, high death rate
- Philippines: Rangers (originated in 1944) conducted hit/run raids behind enemy lines
- Philippines: Unprepared for war with Japan
- Propaganda Posters: The United States government hired some of the best artists of the day to create now-forgotten propaganda posters
- Rationing: A way of life during WWII
- Saipan: A strategic battle in the War in the Pacific
- Saipan: Major contribution by Navajo Code Talkers
- Saipan, Lost: Tojo and cabinet resigns
- Sullivan Brothers: All five died
- Surrender, Emperor Hirohito Announces: First time Japanese people heard him speak - (click on "he announced," fifth paragraph)
- Surrender: Japan ends the war aboard the USS Missouri
- Tokyo War Crimes Trial: Click on "Trial," first paragraph
- Trinity Test: July 16, 1945 test of the atomic bomb, including movies of the explosion.
- War Relocation Authority: Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps
- West Coast Attack, Considered: Japan considered attacking west coast and oil refineries
- Yamamoto: Famous remark about Pearl Harbor attack: "I fear we wake a sleeping giant"