The War in the Pacific

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• The War in the Pacific

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General Douglas MacArthur

• Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific
• I shall return
• Surrender Bataan

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Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway

• Turning Point in the Pacific 1942
• Chester Nimitz commander of U. S. naval forces
  in the Pacific
• Surprise attack Japan could not replace losses
• 4 Japanese aircraft carriers
• 1 Japanese cruiser
• 322 Japanese planes
• U. S. 1 aircraft carrier

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Guadalcanal

• August, 1942 February, 1943
• Japans first defeat on land

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Island Hopping
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Battle of Leyte Gulf

• Japan put their entire fleet into the battle
• Japan tested a new tactic - KAMIKAZE

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Iwo Jima and Okinawa

• Difficult battles and huge loss of life
• Mt. Suribachi 1945
• Iwo Jima

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Potsdam Conference

• July 1945 - Germany
• Clement Atlee Gr. Br.
• Harry Truman USA
• Joseph Stalin USSR
• What to do with Eastern
• Europe
• Truman knows U.S. had bomb

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To Use or Not to Use the Atomic Bomb

• Fighting in the Pacific had been especially
  difficult, costly, and horrible
• Believed the invasion of Japan would be extremely
  costly in Allied lives at least a million
• Bomb was just another military weapon
• Staged demonstration might fail

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Harry S Truman

• Had to make the final decision
• Gave Japan a warning to surrender or face prompt
  and utter destruction

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Hiroshima

• August 6, 1945
• Military center
• B-26 Enola Gay Col. Paul Tibbits
• Little Boy

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Hiroshima
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Nagasaki

• August 9, 1945
• Naval Yards
• Major Charles Sweeney
• B-26 Bockscar
• Fat Man

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Surrender

• September 2, 1945
• Tokyo Bay
• Battleship Missouri
• Douglas MacArthur

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Nuremberg Trials

• First time in history when a nations leaders had
  been held legally responsible for their actions
  during wartime.