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ISN pg 200 , title Battles in the Pacific Preview:

ISN pg 200 , title Battles in the Pacific Preview: Think back to September 11, 2001. How did you feel when the Twin Towers & Pentagon were attacked? What immediate thoughts did you have about the terrorists who carried out these acts?

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ISN pg 200 , title Battles in the Pacific Preview:

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  1. ISN pg 200, title Battles in the Pacific • Preview: • Think back to September 11, 2001. How did you feel when the Twin Towers & Pentagon were attacked? • What immediate thoughts did you have about the terrorists who carried out these acts? • Would you have volunteered for military service if your President asked Americans to enlist? Explain

  2. War in the Pacific

  3. Pearl Harbor • Japan was mad at US for interfering with expansion • Dec 7, 1941—Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (Hawaii); US declared war on Japan • Wanted to take out US navy so could freely conquer Dutch East Indies

  4. Pearl Harbor • Used planes to destroy 18 battleships & kill 2,403 sailors in 2 hours • Pearl Harbor was not only US naval base attacked—Japan also bombed US navy in Manila, Bataan, Corregidor, Wake Island, & Guam on its way to taking huge empire in Pacific Ocean by June 1942 • Wanted “Asia for Asians” & hoped to stretch empire from Japan to Australia

  5. War in the Pacific Japanese Empire, 1942

  6. War in the Pacific • USA Pacific forces led by Douglas MacArthur & Chester Nimitz fought to defeat Japan; needed to conquer Japanese-controlled islands to get to Japan • May 1942—Battle of Midway—1st successful US defeat of Japanese navy

  7. War in the Pacific • US & Australian troops fought to defeat Japan; Japanese refused to surrender & fought to the last man; made fighting for islands difficult • August 1942—Guadalcanal— 6-month land, air, sea battle; Japanese kamikaze (suicide) pilots bombed US ships & bases

  8. War in the Pacific Japanese Empire, 1942

  9. War in the Pacific • Allies could never take all Japanese-controlled islands (too costly), so US began island-hopping strategy—capture some islands, skip others; hoped to cut off Japanese supply lines & “starve” other Japanese-controlled islands

  10. War in the Pacific • By 1945, US won Iwo Jima & Okinawa in the worst fighting of Pacific War— US suffered most marine casualties in these 2 island invasions • Needed these islands as bases to use for invasion of Japan

  11. War in the Pacific Japanese Empire, 1942

  12. V-J • Despite heavy losses, Japan refused to surrender to Allies; continued to fight to last man & used suicide missions to kill as many Allies as possible • US faced with decision: invade Japan OR use new weapon—atomic bomb • Atomic Bomb secretly developed in New Mexico desert during Manhattan Project

  13. V-J • August 6,1945—new US President Harry Truman ordered drop of atomic bomb on Hiroshima; Japan issued no response; 2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later Atomic Bomb Video

  14. Hiroshima

  15. Nagasaki

  16. V-J • August 14, 1945-Japan surrendered—Victory in Japan • World War 2 was over

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