Japan and WWII

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Japan and WWII
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Japan Moves South

• After Japan took Manchuria in 1931 they slowly
  began to work their way South into China.
• By 1933 they had taken the Great Wall

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Japan takes Beijing

• 1937 Japanese and Chinese fight outside the
  gates of the Capital city of Beijing.
• The Japanese win and take control of China.

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Control?

• 1938 Japan sends 1 million troops to China.
  However, due to the size of China they had to
  send another million troops which still only
  allowed them to hold the major cities.

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Control?

• At 1st some believed that Japan was there to
  liberate.
• Japan was simply another dictator.
• Killed millions and destroyed cities.

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Moving South

• Japanese troops continued to move south into
  Indonesia.

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British attempt to stop Japan

• In an attempt to stop the Japanese, the British
  send naval ships.
• Japanese use their planes to destroy the ships.

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Pearl Harbor

• December 7th 1941 A Day that will live in
  Infamy
• Japanese do a surprise attack on the Hawaiian
  Naval Base.

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Why Pearl Harbor?

• In order to secure the Pacific Rim, Japan knew it
  had to take out the U.S. which was the next
  closest country.

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Did FDR know?

• The U.S. got word of a possible attack the night
  before.
• The U.S. saw the planes on radar but by that time
  it was too late.

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Attack

• The attack took 1 hour and 1 minute.
• 4 battleships were sunk
• 188 planes were lost because the U.S. didnt
  expect an air strike

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Casualties

• 2400 American men died, many from drowning.
• ½ of the men were on the USS Arizona which is
  memorialized today.

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U.S. enters WWII.

• As a result of Pearl Harbor the United States
  entered WWII.