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The War in the Pacific
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
Dec. 8, 1941Wake Island
December 10, 1941Guam
Battle of the Philippines
General Douglas MacArthur Promises
the Philippines
“I shall return”
April 1942, 76,000 Allies troops surrender to Japan, do to low resources.
10,000 Allies POWs died & many brutallytreated in the 6-12 day journey known as
the Bataan Death March. 15,000 more died in the prison camps.
Geneva Conventions
Bataan Death March set-up new treatment standards for POWs
Battles in China & Burma
December 9, 1941 China declares war on Japan
Jiang Jieshi makes General Joseph Stilwell
China’s Chief of Staff (defend Burma)
“Flying Tigers” loose control ofBurma Road causing China, Britain,
& India to retreat.
Battle of the Coral Sea
April 1942 Lt. Col. James Doolittle
leads secret mission to bomb Tokyo
First naval combat carried out by aircrafts, which ended in a draw.
USA lost Lexington & Yorktown heavily damaged
Japan unable to invade Australia.
Battle of MidwayJune 4, 1942
Admiral Chester Nimitz wins against Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku
due to a surprise attack &Commander Joseph Rochefort
braking Japan’s code
USA lost the Yorktown. While Japan lost 4 carriers & 250 planes with their best pilots, which now makes them unable
to launch any more offensives in the Pacific
Battle of Guadalcanal
August 1942, 11,000 marines attack 2,200 Japanese who fled to Jungle; giving the USA their first taste of jungle warfare. Within in 5 months USA final takes over its first piece of
Japanese-held territory.
USA invest into island-hopping to effectively cut off supplies &
reinforcements to Japan
1943-1944 island hopping begins: Lead by MacArthur, Nimitz, & Admiral William
Halsey USA now ends ups in reach of Japan
& starts to bomb its cities.
Battle of Leyte Gulf
October 1944MacArthur announces, “People
of the Philippines, I have returned.”
3 day battle with 280 USA warships, also introduced Japan’s desperation of
using kamikazes.June 1945 Leyte & Manila are Liberated,
leaving:
80,000 Japanese deadLess than 1,000 Japanese surrendered
40,000 Filipino civilians dead
Battle of Iwo JimaFebruary 1945
With 25,000 USA Causalities & over
24,000 Japanese causalities
with 216 POWs, Iwo Jima became knownas one of the bloodiest
battles of WWII.
Symbol of WWII
Nimitz gives out 27 medals of honor.“Uncommon valor
was a common virtue”
Battle of OkinawaApril-June 1945
Japanese ordered to fight to the death with 2,000 kamikaze & the rest
Banzais.
Largest attack next to D-Day:USA has1,300 warships &
180,000 soldiersCostliest engagement of the
pacific:7,200 Japanese surrender50,000 USA casualties
August 1939 Albert Einstein informs FDR that Germans are close to
creating an atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
1942: Enrico FermiFigures out how to control the reaction
July 16, 1945USA has its first test of the atomic bomb
in the desert of New Mexico.
Manhattan Project
After the 1st test J. Robert Oppenheimer
expresses, “Now I am become death, the
destroyer of worlds.”
April 1945 FDR dies & Harry S. Truman takes
over and makes the final decision, along with the Interim Committee, to drop the atomic bomb
on Japan.
August 6, 1945 “The Enola Gay”
drops “Little Boy” on Hiroshima
Japan Surrenders
August 9, 1945“Fat Man”
is dropped onNagasaki
August 14, 1945Japan surrendersV-J Day begins 24 hours later.
September 2, 1945Japan formally surrenders to MacArthur
on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay