Unit: World War II Topic: War in the Pacific

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Unit World War IITopic War in the Pacific
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1. A Japanese Empire
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• The Japanese saw World War II as their chance to
  build an overseas empire.

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1. They had a scarce supply of natural resources and
   not a lot of land for their people.

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128 million people!
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Tokyo
12 million people!
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2. Japanese Victories
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1. By spring 1942, Japan had taken over Guam, the
   Philippines, the coast of China, Hong Kong,
   Korea, Malaya, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia,
   and Burma.

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1. Under the slogan East Asia for the Asians, the
   Japanese created the Greater East Asia
   Co-Prosperity Sphere.
2. After victory, however, the Japanese treated
   people with cruelty.

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3. The Bataan Death March
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1. The Japanese reserved the most brutal treatment
   for Allied POWs.

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1. On the Bataan Death March a forced march of
   more than 50 miles - the Japanese subjected
   their captives to terrible cruelties.

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• Of approx. 70,000 POWS, only 54,000 survived.

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• I was questioned by a Japanese officer, who found
  out that I had been in a Philippine Scout
  Battalion. They took me outside and I was forced
  to watch as they buried six of my Scouts alive.
  They made the men dig their own graves, and then
  had them kneel down in a pit. The guards hit them
  over the head with shovels to stun them and piled
  earth on top.
• - Lieutenant John Spainhower, War Diary

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4. The Pacific Theater
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1. In April 1942, 16 B-25 bombers under Lt. James
   Doolittle bombed Tokyo and several other cities.

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1. In the Battle of the Coral Sea (1942), the Allies
   stopped a potential Japanese takeover of
   Australia.

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1. When Japan targeted Midway Island, 1500 miles
   away from Japan, the Allies stopped them - this
   turned the tide of the war in the Pacific.

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5. An Allied Offensive
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1. Under the command of General Douglas MacArthur,
   the Marines conducted an island-hopping
   campaign.

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1. They built air bases on the captured islands by
   1944, Japan was blockaded.

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
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1. The Japanese were suffering, but would not
   consider surrendering.

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5. V-J Day
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The Decision to Drop the BombAlternative
Possibilities

• A massive invasion of Japan, expected to cost
  millions of Allied causalities
• A naval blockade to starve Japan, along with
  conventional bombing
• A demonstration of the atomic bomb on a deserted
  island to pressure Japan to surrender
• A softening of Allied demands for an
  unconditional surrender
• MORE ALLIED LIVES WAR DRAGS ON

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• President Truman considered the bomb to be a
  military weapon and had no doubt that it should
  be used. You should do your weeping at Pearl
  Harbor, he told his critics.

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1. On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was
   dropped on Hiroshima.

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1. Nagasaki was next on August 9.

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Little Boy
Fat Man
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1. The Japanese surrendered on September 2, 1945.

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