1. War in the Pacific

2. War in the Pacific
Remember the invasion of Manchuria (1931) and China (1937)?
Japanese foreign policy objectives
Access to raw materials
Win new foreign markets
Gain an outlet for surplus population

3. War in the Pacific
Remember the invasion of Manchuria (1931) and China (1937)?
Japanese foreign policy objectives
Access to raw materials
Win new foreign markets
Gain an outlet for surplus population

4. War in the Pacific
Japan foreign policy brought the country into conflict with the United States
1937: Japanese invasion of China
1939: United States imposed economic sanctions on Japan
Japanese industries depended on American petroleum, steel, iron and industrial machinery
1940: Japan occupied part of Indochina (Vietnam)
United States moved the Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1941: U.S. imposed sanctions on aviation fuel, iron and scrap metal
Japan announces the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which called for Japanese control of all resources in Southeast Asia
Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the U.S. and ended all trade between the two countries

5. War in the Pacific
Japan lacked the resources to continue the war in China.
Japanese leaders faced the choice: to negotiate or fight and seize resource rich territories in Southeast Asia.

6. A date which will live in infamy!
Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941
A date which will live in infamy!

7. Pacific Theater of Operations

8. Singapore Surrenders [February, 1942]

9. U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines [March, 1942]

10. Axis Powers in 1942-Height of Control

11. Japanese strategy Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
"I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success"

12. Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests

13. Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942

14. Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

15. War in the Pacific Japanese strategy fundamentally flawed
Technological and industrial capacity of the United States

16. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

17. US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

18. Dropping of Atomic Bomb
Question: Was the U.S. justified in using the A-Bomb?

19. Tinian Island, 1945
Little Boy Fat Man
Enola Gay Crew

20. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 70,000 killed immediately.
48,000 buildings. destroyed.
100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

21. The Beginning of the Atomic Age

22. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 40,000 killed immediately. 60,000 injured.
100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

23. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

24. Hiroshima Memorials