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World At War Advancing on Japan 24.4. Two Paths towards Japan ► Admiral Nimitz = use Island Hopping: capturing strategic island groups in Central Pacific.

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1 World At War Advancing on Japan 24.4

2 Two Paths towards Japan ► Admiral Nimitz = use Island Hopping: capturing strategic island groups in Central Pacific. ► Gen. Douglas MacArthur = liberate New Guinea & Philippines

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4 ► 1,000 Marines & 4,713 Japs dead Tarawa, A Square Mile of Hell! Nov 1943

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6 Guam, Tinian, and Saipan (July 1944) ► US in bombing range of Japan ► 3,000 US dead, 29,000 Japanese

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8 ► 115° with no shade. ► Highest Casualty rate of Pacific War Peleliu: The Hardest Win

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10 Liberation of the Philippines (Oct 1944 – Feb 1945) ► MacArthur returns ► Battle of Leyte Gulf = Largest Naval battle in history cripples Japan’s Navy ► Japs begin Kamikaze attacks!

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12 Mainland Asia ► British, Indian, & US forces open supply lines with China. ► Chinese Communists & Nationalists work together to expel the Japanese ► Ho Chi Minh helps free Vietnam

13 Chiang Kai Shek Mao Zedong Ho Chi Minh

14 Iwo Jima (Feb 1945)

15 Okinawa (March - June 1945) ► Last pitched battle of the war ► 48,000 US casualties, 12,000 KIA ► 149,000 Japanese killed ► Invasion of mainland = worse!

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19 Firebombing of Tokyo

20 The Manhattan Project ► Development of the Atom-Bomb  Began under FDR in 1940  First tested on July 16, 1945 ► Truman’s decision based on…  Prevent full-scale invasion of Japan  Scare the Soviets

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22 End of the War ► Truman gave Japan ultimatum  Militarists wouldn’t give in ► Aug 6, 1945: Hiroshima Bombed  80,000 killed instantly ► Aug 9, 1945: Nagasaki Bombed

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25 Japan Surrenders! ► Aug 14, 1945: Emperor Hirohito announces surrender ► Sept 2: Official surrender  World War II Ends

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