Kammala wannan jumla: Yaƙin ya fara ne ga Amurka a ranar 7 ga Disamba, 1941 tare da harin Japan a kan Pearl Harbor, da mamayewar Philippines da Dutch East Indies. Yaƙe-yaƙe masu wuya a Papua da Guadalcanal sun biyo baya a 1942. A shekara ta 1943, aka kori Jafananci daga tsibirin Aleutian, kuma sojojin Amirka suka sauka a arewacin Solomon Islands, da Gilbert Islands, da Bismarck Archipelago. Wannan ya biyo baya a cikin 1944 ta mamaye tsibirin Marshall, jerin saukowa a yammacin New Guinea, kama tsibirin Mariana da kuma yakin Palau. Sojojin Amurka
ya koma Philippines a watan Oktoba 1944, ya jagoranci manyan yakin basasa a Luzon da kudancin Philippines ta hanyar 1945. Sojojin Amurka sun sauka a Okinawa kuma a watan Afrilu 1945. An jefa bama-bamai na atomatik da aka kirkira a karkashin jagorancin Sojojin Amurka a Hiroshima da Nagasaki a shekarar 1945, wanda ya sa Jafananci suka mika wuya ba tare da wani sharadi ba a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1945, a cikin jirgin USS "Missouri".