Japan’s Pacific Campaign VS.. Bellringer On your own paper--- 1.What was the name of the pact between Russia and Germany? (It was secret) 2.Name the.

Japan’s Pacific Campaign

VS.

BellringerOn your own paper---

1.What was the name of the pact between Russia and Germany? (It was secret)

2.Name the type of warfare that the Germans were now using.

3.Name the famous French general. (There is an airport named after him.

4.Name the man who would replace Neville Chamberlain as the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

5.FDR signed this ______________ allowing the US to loan weapons and money to other countries to fight Germany, in return we could lease air/military space.

SURPRISE!!American forces were cracking Japanese codes with

the Enigma Machine. This machine allowed the Americans to crack any secret messages that were being sent. Aware of the Japanese plans for Southeast Asia

The U.S. government sent aid to strengthen Chinese resistance. 1941- Roosevelt cut off oil shipments to Japan when they

conquered French Indochina – Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

Didn’t stop them.

Japan’s Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had a plan to attack the “dagger pointed at Japan’s throat.” Which was what?

Pearl HarborDecember 7 1941

The Attack

December 7th- The Day of Infamy

The battleship Arizona was hit with an armor piercing bomb which penetrated the forward ammunition compartment, blowing the ship apart and sinking it within seconds. Of the military personnel lost at Pearl Harbor, 1,177 were from the Arizona. The first shots fired were from the USS Ward (DD-139) on a midget submarine that had surfaced outside of Pearl Harbor; the Ward did successfully sink the midget sub at approximately 6:55, about an hour before the assault on Pearl Harbor.

Within 2 hours of the attack- Japan had sunk or damaged 19 ships- 8 battleships and the overall death toll reached 2,350, including 68 civilians, and 1,178 injured.

The next day Roosevelt addressed congress and asked for war!

Japanese Victories

Japan quickly conquered Guam and Wake Island.

They then turned their attention to the Philippines.

And Philippines fall in 1942 under the command of Admiral Yamamoto when they marched into Filipino capital of Manila.

American and Filipino forces set up on the Bataan Peninsula. In April, the Japanese took Bataan.

Japan begins capturing British holdings including Hong Kong, Singapore and Dutch East Indies

Japanese treated captured people brutally

Victories cont’d

Seized Hong Kong

Invaded Malaya from the sea

By 1942 they had reached Singapore which was at the southern tip of Malay Peninsula.

Within a month, Japan had conquered the Dutch East Indies. (RESOURCES)

Took Burma, where they wanted to launch a strike against India.

Now had control of 1 million square miles of Asian land.

They were absolutely BRUTAL to the 150 million people living in these conquered lands.

Bataan Death March70,00 Allied prisoners were marched

50 miles up the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines. Many were beaten and killed during the march- only 54,000 survived the march

Prisoners were attacked for assisting someone failing due to weakness, or for no apparent reason whatsoever. Strings of Japanese trucks were known to drive over anyone who fell. Riders in vehicles would casually stick out a rifle bayonet and cut a string of throats in the lines of men marching alongside the road. Accounts of being forcibly marched for five to six days with no food and a single sip of water are in postwar archives including filmed reports.

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The Allies Strike Back

Japanese seemed unbeatable after all of these victories.

US wanted revenge for Pearl Harbor.

US bomber attack Tokyo and other Japanese cities raid is not very successful, but made a point.

Battle of Coral Sea- Americans stop the Japanese advance beginning may 1942

New kind of fighting- done by air planes- not ships

Allies suffered the most losses but considered it a vicoty

Battle of Coral Sea

The Battle of Midway Japanese sends powerful

fleet to capture Midway Island

Midway Island- 1500 miles west of Hawaii

-US destroys Japan’s navel fleet and Japan retreats

This was a key American air field

The Battle of Midway- turned the tide of the war

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKXVTZo6gIg

MacArthur’s Plan- An Allied Offensive

Douglas MacArthur- American army commander in the Pacific

Plan- Island hopping past enemy strong holds an attack weaker Japanese bases

He thought that storming each island would be a waste of valuable time.

Battle of Guadalcanal- terrible battle that ends in an Allied victory

Lasted 6 months – Japan lost 24,000 out of 36,000 men