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Hitler is dead! So now
what????
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Japanese captured Hong Kong, French Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Thailand,
New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines,
Guam, Wake Island, part of Aleutian islands.
After Pearl Harbor...
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Coral Sea
May ‘42
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Result: Australia’s saved
U.S. victory
1st battle where carriers do most of fighting
(not battleships)
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Crew of the USS Lexington
abandoning ship
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June ‘42
NW of Hawaii
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4 Japanese aircraft
carriers & 100s of “zeros”
destroyed1st major Japanese defeat
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Hiryu on fire & drifting
after attack by US carrier
Air Forces
US Strategy in Pacific Theater?
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Capture key
islands, build
bases, & surround
Japan
Goal: Cut off
supplies
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‘42
Adm. Chester Nimitz: Pacific Zone
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur: SW Pacific
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Japan began to build airfield here to invade
Australia
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10,000 marines sent to take island & stop them
Aug 7, ‘42
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1st U.S. marines land on Guadalcanal
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ENEMY: daily conditions
Poisonous insects
Scorching heat & humidity
Tropical fevers (malaria & dysentery)
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25,000 Japanese dead
Fight to the death!
Lasted 6 months
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Showed they could be beaten, but it would be
BLOODY
1st major territorial loss for Japanese
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Sullivan brothers
US lost 2 cruisers, 7 destroyers, & 1600
men
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Japan takes
Manila in ‘42
US & Filipino troops surrender, but...
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Bataan Death March
...must march from
Bataan Peninsula: 65 miles!!
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I shall return!
I make a promise! Who am I?
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Biggest naval battle in history (282 ships)
June ‘44
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USS Indiana Firing on Japanese positions on
Leyte
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Kamikaze (Divine Wind)
pilots 1st usedPilots who
crashed into US ships
with bomb-loaded planes
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MacArthur returns Oct 20,
‘44
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American flag being raised at
Mt. Suribachi
Feb. ‘45
750 miles from
Japan
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No Japanese survivors!
Fight fromunderground
tunnels!
Kill 10 USsoldiers before
you are!
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Launch 110,000 Marines & 880 warships to island
Bombed island for 2 months
before sending in Marines
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No front linesU.S. Weapons of
choice: Liquid gas, Napalm, & grenades
U.S. rarely saw Japanese soldiers
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Another U.S. victory
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350 miles
South of Japan
April ‘45
Bloodiest island fight in Pacific
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Knowing what you do now about how
the Japanese defended these
islands, what can you deduce about the end of the war
in the Pacific?
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