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PACIFIC THEATER

JAPAN HAWAII Midway Island Guadalcanal Dec. 8th 1941 Philippines P.H. Attack Bataan Guadalcanal

Use the next slide to label your big paper map.

JAPAN Midway June 1942 Okinawa Iwo Jima June 1945 March 1945 Mariana Islands Aug 1944 Guadalcanal Feb 1943

What’s the Spanish American War Got To Do With It? What happened to the Philippines (& for that matter, Guam, Puerto Rico and Hawaii) after the Spanish-American War? Kamikaze: suicide bombing, drove their planes into our ships How do you inspire someone to do that? Spirit of the Japanese Soldier Bataan… (map)

Battle of Bataan/Death March Who owned the Philippines before Japan invaded it? _____________ US & Filipino troops occupied the area, were bombarded by Japanese invasion, and backed to city of Bataan (Dec 1941-April 1942) 10,000 US and 60,000 Filipino troops were forced to surrender on April 9th, 1942 Japanese forced the POWs to walk 60 miles to their concentration camps Largest defeat of USA military history

After Bataan….. MacArthur decides to take the troops remaining and attack the island of Midway (June 1942) If we could conquer Midway, it would be the optimum “refueling” station between our west coast and the Pacific Islands …meanwhile on the European Front we are invading Mussolini’s Africa territory

GuadalCanal Aug 1942 & Amphibious Landings? Amphibious – Alligators could be used in or out of the waters

After Guadalcanal (1943), US reaches the Mariana Islands in June 1944 Island Hopping Begins After Guadalcanal (1943), US reaches the Mariana Islands in June 1944 From the Mariana islands,2,000 miles from Japan, US set out to bomb it again Islands were close enough to launch the large B-29 bombers from the air base First bombs since Doolittle Raid dropped but there still wasn’t enough fuel to maneuver around and reach their desired targets Still needed a closer island to attack Japan from

IwO jima US Military storms the island of Iwo Jima in Feb 1945 2/3 men die, 6,800 lives lost US Victory Now B-29s could take off from the air base on Iwo Jima To ensure target destruction, B-29 send bombs with Napalm to Tokyo 100,000 civilians lives lost, ½ the city destroyed

Napalm…And Still No Surrender?? By this point, military leaders believed the only way Japan would surrender is if we invaded it and took over To prepare for invasion, the US needed a base near Japan to stock supplies and prep troops Iwo Jima too small

OKINAWA US looks to Okinawa as the next target Only 350 miles from Japan Captured June 22 1945 Twice as many casualties than Iwo Jima, 12,000 dead Next plan to invade Japan, leaders expect massive casualties

April 12, 1945 (during battle of Okinawa), FDR dies On The Home Front… April 12, 1945 (during battle of Okinawa), FDR dies His VP, Harry Truman, steps up Truman debates the risk of invasion, then is informed in July 1945 of the first successful testing of the atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico