Chapter 26 – World War II Section Notes The War Begins The Home Front War in Europe and North Africa War in the Pacific Victory and Consequences Video The Impact of the GI Bill Images The Third Reich Primary Source: Supporting the War Struggles at Home Code Talkers Iwo Jima Quick Facts Major Leaders of the War in Europe Causes and Effects of World War II Chapter 26 Visual Summary Maps World War II in Europe, 1939- 1941 Pearl Harbor, 1941 World War II in Europe, 1942- 1945 War in the Pacific, 1941-1945
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Chapter 26 – World War II
Section Notes The War Begins The Home Front War in Europe and North Africa War in the Pacific Victory and Consequences
Video The Impact of the GI Bill
Images The Third Reich Primary Source: Supporting the War Struggles at Home Code Talkers Iwo Jima
Quick Facts Major Leaders of the War in
Europe Causes and Effects of World
War II Chapter 26 Visual Summary
Maps World War II in Europe, 1939-
1941 Pearl Harbor, 1941 World War II in Europe, 1942-
1945 War in the Pacific, 1941-1945
War in the Pacific
The Big Idea
Allied forces reversed Japan’s expansion in the Pacific and battled toward the main Japanese islands.
Main Ideas
• The Japanese continued advancing across the Pacific in 1942.
• The Allies stopped Japan’s advance with key victories over the Japanese navy.
• The Allies began battling toward Japan.
• Victory in the Pacific came after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
Main Idea 1: The Japanese continued advancing across the
Pacific in 1942.
• Attack on Pearl Harbor left U.S. Pacific fleet weakened.
• Japan advanced and conquered
– Thailand
– Burma
– the British colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore
– the U.S. territories of Guam and Wake Island.
Main Idea 1: The Japanese continued advancing across the
Pacific in 1942. • Japanese then attacked U.S. controlled Philippines.
– American and Filipino forces under command of American general Douglas MacArthur
– Douglas MacArthur was forced to leave
• March 1942– Allied forces surrender Philippines to Japan.
– Japanese march more than 70,000 captured soldiers to prison camps 63 miles away.
– More than 600 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos died in the Bataan Death March.
Main Idea 3: Victory in the Pacific came after the United
States dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
• Allied scientists developed the atomic bomb, a weapon that produces tremendous power by splitting atoms, in a secret program known as the Manhattan Project.
• When Japanese leaders refused to surrender, President Truman ordered use of the bomb.
Main Idea 3: Victory in the Pacific came after the United
States dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
• August 6, 1945– the B-29 bomber Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
– Explosion killed almost 80,000 people instantly.
– Thousands more died from burns and radiation poisoning.
• Japanese leaders still refused to surrender.
End of World War II
• August 9, 1945– U.S. forces drop a second atomic bomb on city of Nagasaki.
– One-third of the city destroyed
– 22,000 people killed instantly
• August 15, 1945– Japanese announce their surrender thus ending World War II.