2. The War in the Pacific

3. Roosevelt signs declaration of war against Japan

4. Japanese Advances Japan occupied/controlled the area within the grey line by the end of 1941

5. Japanese Advances- Gen. MacArthur in the Philippines

6. The War in the Pacific Gen. MacArthur commanded Allied forces in the Phillipines

7. Doolittle’s Raid Lt. Col. Doolittle April 18, 1942

8. Flight Deck of USS Hornet

9. Battle of the Coral Sea SBD Dauntless Attacks!

11. Battle of the Coral Sea May 1942 First battle where Air Craft Carriers engaged one another Japanese Fleet ran out of Fuel

12. The Battle of Midway

13. June 1942 Japanese lost 4 Air Craft carriers and 200 Pilots Americans felt they avenged the attack on Pearl Harbor

14. The Battle of Midway

15. The Battle of Midway- Destruction of Japanese Cruisers

17. The Allies go on the Offensive

19. Battle of Guadalcanal August 1942 to February 1943 Known as the Island of Death Battle for Henderson Air Strip

20. Battle of Leyte Gulf October 1944 MacArthur keeps promise to free the people of the Philippines

21. Iwo Jima Feb 1945 Over 20,000 Japanese killed Only 200 taken Prisoner Marines raised flag on Mt. Suribachi

22. Marines rushing beach at Iwo Jima

23. Air View of Iwo Jima

24. Planes flying over Iwo Jima

25. The Battle for Okinawa Over 100,000 Japanese soldiers died U.S. Navy suffered heavy losses because of Kamikaze attacks

26. Marines at Okinawa

27. Japanese Defense

28. Battle for Okinawa

29. The Atomic Bomb

30. The Manhattan Project 1 st Bomb test in Alamogordo, NM

31. The A-Bomb was lifted 100 ft. in the air before detonation

32. J. Robert Oppenheimer Otto Frisch The Creators

33. Alamogordo Test Site

35. Official Bombing Order July 25, 1945

36. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY

37. The Enola Gay

39. Little Boy-Dropped on Hiroshima

40. Hiroshima Before

41. Hiroshima Cloud

42. Hiroshima After

43. Fat Man-Dropped on Nagasaki

44. Nagasaki Before

45. Nagasaki Cloud

46. Nagasaki After

47. Radiation Symbol

48. Japanese Surrender Party

49. Surrender signed on USS Missouri

50. Emperor Hirohito

51. General MacArthur

52. MacArthur Leads Occupation of Japan

53. POW’s in Japan Liberated

54. MacArthur & Hirohito