War in the Pacific

1
War in the Pacific

• Ch. 26
• Sec. 5
• Pp. 777-780

2
The Pacific Front

• 12/7/41 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, the
  Philippines, Wake Island, and Guam
• Invaded Thailand, Malaya, and Hong Kong

3
Bataan Death March

• After months of fighting, Allies surrender
• Prisoners forced to march 60 miles to Bataan
• 76,000 started, 54,000 survived

4
Island Hopping

• 4/16/42 Doolittle raid on Tokyo
• Battle of Coral Sea halts Japanese advance
• Battle of Midway is a decisive Japanese defeat
  (they lost 4 aircraft carriers)

5
Island Hopping

• U.S. attacked and captured key islands, then
  leapfrogged to others
• 1943 Guadalcanal captured
• 1944 Guam captured

6
Island Hopping

• 1945 U.S. seizes first Japanese islands, Iwo
  Jima and Okinawa
• Thousands of U.S. soldiers die or are wounded
• Kamikazes, suicide planes, first appear

7
The Atomic Bomb

• Manhattan Project U.S. scientists work in
  secret on atomic bomb
• Potsdam Declaration Allies warned Japan to
  surrender or face prompt and utter destruction
• 8/6/45 bomb dropped on Hiroshima, three days
  later on Nagasaki

8
The War Ends

• 8/15/45 V-J Day, Japanese surrender
• Top Nazi and Japanese leaders were put on trial
• 40 million died in WWII (half of them were
  Russian)
• U.S. 322,000 dead and 800,000 injured