1. Agenda
1. Timeline and Quiz Corrections 1. Warm Up 2. Discussion: War in the Pacific 5. Pearl Harbor Videos 3. History in film, the Doolittle Raid 4. Mappin the Pacific HW: Nun

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3. Warm Up
What was unique about the Battle of Britain. Why was Germany’s conquering of France so shocking to Europe?

4. The War in the Pacific

5. Attack on Pearl Harbor Why did it happen?
Anti-West (American)
US cut off oil shipment
Japan: Expansionist and Aggressive
Japanese believed that the fleet at Pearl Harbor had to be destroyed to be successful in Pacific.
18 ships, and nearly 2,400 killed on December 7th, 1941.
“A Day which will live in infamy”

6. War in the Pacific
By February, 1942, the Japanese took Singapore and Burma, and most of the islands in the Pacific.
Bataan Death March
Forced march in the Philippines that led to the death of 80,000.

7. Doolittle Raid US revenge for Pearl Harbor.
16 B-25 bombers sent from aircraft carriers to bomb Tokyo.
Little damage, but it showed the United States that we COULD attack. Morale Booster.
Japanese call it the “do-nothing raid” to strengthen country.

8. US Victories in Pacific
Battle of the Coral Sea stops the Japanese Advance in 1942.
Turning Point (The battle/event that changes the war)
Battle of Midway, 1942
Us outnumbered
Outflanked Japanese for the win
American code breakers revealed Japanese plans of when and where to attack.

10. General Douglas MacAuthur
Island-Hopping Campaign
Cuts supply lines to the islands so Japanese troops would either surrender or starve.
By 1943 America winning the war in the Pacific.

11. Japanese Warfare
Kamikazi pilots and samurai morals claim there is no retreat only death.
Japanese propaganda claims Americans will kill women and children
Civilians commit suicide instead of face American capture.