1. The War in the Pacific

2. Timeline – Naval Battles
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The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Midway

3. Naval warfare
WWII, especially in the pacific, established the aircraft carrier as the new king of naval warfare
Replaced the gun-firing battleships of WWI
Many battles were fought with the ships of the opposing sides completely out of sight of each other
In some battles, no ships actually fired a shot

4. Naval warfare
WWII, especially in the pacific, established the aircraft carrier as the new king of naval warfare
Battle of the Coral Sea (May, 1942)
American and Australian forces defeated the Japanese
First time a Japanese invasion was stopped

5. Naval warfare
WWII, especially in the pacific, established the aircraft carrier as the new king of naval warfare
Battle of the Coral Sea (May, 1942)
Battle of Midway (June 3, 1942)
The US navy stopped a Japanese fleet moving toward Midway, an island between Japan and Hawaii
Considered the turning point of the war, from this point on the Japanese would be on the defensive

6. Timeline – Ground Fighting
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The US attacks Guadalcanal
The US takes the Philippines
Allies capture Iwo Jima
Allies capture Okinawa

7. Ground Fighting
After stopping the Japanese advance at sea, the Allies began attacking the Japanese using a strategy called “Island Hopping”
Allied troops took strategic island on which they could build air bases that would bring other Japanese- held territory into range of heavy bombers

8. Ground Fighting
After stopping the Japanese advance at sea, the Allies began attacking the Japanese using a strategy called “Island Hopping”
Guadalcanal (August, 1942)
The first time the Japanese were defeated on land

9. Ground Fighting The US Takes the Philippines (October, 1944)
After stopping the Japanese advance at sea, the Allies began attacking the Japanese using a strategy called “Island Hopping”
Guadalcanal (August, 1942)
The US Takes the Philippines (October, 1944)
US troops, led by General Douglas MacArthur, took back what was once a US territory
Ships approaching the Philippines were opposed by kamikaze pilots

10. Ground Fighting The Allies take Iwo Jima (March, 1945)
After stopping the Japanese advance at sea, the Allies began attacking the Japanese using a strategy called “Island Hopping”
Guadalcanal (August, 1942)
The US Takes the Philippines (October, 1944)
The Allies take Iwo Jima (March, 1945)
More than 20,000 Japanese troops were heavily entrenched in the island
More than 6,000 marines died taking it

11. Ground Fighting The Allies capture Okinawa (June, 1945)
After stopping the Japanese advance at sea, the Allies began attacking the Japanese using a strategy called “Island Hopping”
Guadalcanal (August, 1942)
The US Takes the Philippines (October, 1944)
The Allies take Iwo Jima (March, 1945)
The Allies capture Okinawa (June, 1945)
Okinawa put US heavy bombers in range of the Japanese home islands
Cost 7,600 American lives and 110,000 Japanese

12. Strategic Bombing and the End of the War
The US bombed Japanese cities and industrial centers
Firebombing Tokyo killed between 80,000 and 130,000 people
Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 200,000 people
Hiroshima: August 6, 1945
Nagasaki: August 9, 1945
Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945

13. Debating the Atomic Bomb
Read “Point Counterpoint” on page 791 and fill in the chart below showing the reasons that people say the atomic bombs should or should not have been used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Why using the bomb was necessary
Why using the bomb was not necessary

14. Debating the Atomic Bomb
Guiding Question: Should the US have used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Write a topic sentence as though you were writing an SCR to answer the guiding question