The War in the Pacific. December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Dec. 8, 1941 Wake Island December 10, 1941 Guam.

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