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😱How U.S. Defeated Japan in World War II CONTEXT: How did the United States manage to defeat Japan during World War II? While Nazi Germany was expanding in Europe, its ally Imperial Japan was conquering territories across Asia. In 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, crippling part of the U.S. Navy and starting the Pacific War. For a short time, Japan had the upper hand. But the Battle of Midway (1942) changed everything. In just four days, the United States destroy

USS Missouri (BB-63) was an Iowa-class fast battleship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1944. Nicknamed the “Mighty Mo,” she is most famous as the site of Japan’s formal surrender on September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay, officially ending World War II. Missouri served in the Pacific during the final campaigns of the war, providing naval gunfire support at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She later saw action in the Korean War and, after modernization with guided-missile systems, in Operation Desert St