Japanese Victories

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Japanese Victories
-Pearl Harbor -Victories in much of the
Pacific -MacArthur retreats from the
Philippines Bataan Death March -MacArthur
pledges to return
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America Recovers
-Bombing of Tokyo April 1942 -Coral Sea
Battle air power in the navy -Battle of
Midway, 1942 Adm. Chester Nimitz inflicted
great damage to much larger Japanese
fleet -Japan never recovered its naval power
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America Recovers
-Bombing of Tokyo April 1942 -Coral Sea
Battle air power in the navy -Battle of
Midway, 1942 Adm. Chester Nimitz inflicted
great damage to much larger Japanese
fleet -Japan never recovered its naval power
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America Recovers
-Bombing of Tokyo April 1942 -Coral Sea
Battle air power in the navy -Battle of
Midway, 1942 Adm. Chester Nimitz inflicted
great damage to much larger Japanese
fleet -Japan never recovered its naval power
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Island Hopping
-as the U./S. built its naval and air advantage
the Japanese fortified every island -U.S.
bypasses many island and takes weaker ones for
airfields -Guadalcanal, 1942 -Philippines,
1944
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High Costs
-Japanese defending with every man kamikaze
attacks -Iwo Jima, 1945 6,000 Marines
die -Roosevelt dies -Okinawa, 1945 higher
death totals -warnings of what invasion would
cost
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High Costs
-Japanese defending with every man kamikaze
attacks -Iwo Jima, 1945 6,000 Marines
die -Roosevelt dies -Okinawa, 1945 higher
death totals -warnings of what invasion would
cost
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High Costs
-Japanese defending with every man kamikaze
attacks -Iwo Jima, 1945 6,000 Marines
die -Roosevelt dies -Okinawa, 1945 higher
death totals -warnings of what invasion would
cost
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Manhattan Project
-about 600,000 people worked in the project -J.
Robert Oppenheimer led the project at Los Alamos
NM -some scientists urged the govt not to use
the weapon -Truman made the decision to use the
weapon on Japan
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Ultimate Weapon
-Before atomic weapon was used, airdrops of
leaflets urged Japanese to surrender -Japanese
leaders refuse to unconditionally
surrender -August, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay
dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima -another
bomb dropped on Nagasaki -Japanese surrender -V-J
Day (Victory over Japan)
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Ultimate Weapon
-Before atomic weapon was used, airdrops of
leaflets urged Japanese to surrender (Fatman and
Little Boy) -Japanese leaders refuse to
unconditionally surrender -August, 1945 the
bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over
Hiroshima -another bomb dropped on
Nagasaki -Japanese surrender -V-J Day (Victory
over Japan)
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Ultimate Weapon
-Before atomic weapon was used, airdrops of
leaflets urged Japanese to surrender -Japanese
leaders refuse to unconditionally
surrender -August, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay
dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima -another
bomb dropped on Nagasaki -Japanese surrender -V-J
Day (Victory over Japan)
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Rebuilding the World
-Yalta, 1945 meeting of the Big Three -Creation
of the United Nations -Potsdam, July
1945 division of Germany -Nuremburg
Trials war crimes several leaders executed
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Occupation of Japan
-General Douglas MacArthur -reformed Japans
economy -established democratic
government -guaranteed basic freedoms Constitu
tion still exists as Japans government