1. PACIFIC THEATER

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

3. Use the next slide to label your big paper map.

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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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