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Japanese Victories

Japanese Victories. Read pages 661-663 -Pearl Harbor -Victories in much of the Pacific - MacArthur retreats from the Philippines “Bataan Death March” - MacArthur pledges to return. America Recovers. Read Pages 675-676 -Bombing of Tokyo April 1942 -Coral Sea Battle

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Japanese Victories

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  1. Japanese Victories Read pages 661-663 -Pearl Harbor -Victories in much of the Pacific -MacArthur retreats from the Philippines “Bataan Death March” -MacArthur pledges to return

  2. America Recovers Read Pages 675-676 -Bombing of Tokyo April 1942 -Coral Sea Battle air power in the navy -Battle of Midway, 1942 Adm. Chester Nimitz inflicted great damage to much larger Japanese fleet -Japan never recovered its naval power

  3. Island Hopping Read Page 691-695 -as the U./S. built its naval and air advantage the Japanese fortified every island -U.S. bypasses many island and takes weaker ones for airfields -Guadalcanal, 1942 -Philippines, 1944

  4. High Costs -Japanese defending with every man kamikaze attacks -Iwo Jima, 1945 6,000 Marines die -Roosevelt dies -Okinawa, 1945 higher death totals -warnings of what invasion would cost

  5. Manhattan Project -about 600,000 people worked in the project -J. Robert Oppenheimer led the project at Los Alamos NM -some scientists urged the gov’t not to use the weapon -Truman made the decision to use the weapon on Japan

  6. Ultimate Weapon -Before atomic weapon was used, airdrops of leaflets urged Japanese to surrender -Japanese leaders refuse to unconditionally surrender -August, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima -another bomb dropped on Nagasaki -Japanese surrender -V-J Day (Victory over Japan)

  7. Rebuilding the World -Yalta, 1945 meeting of the Big Three -Creation of the United Nations -Potsdam, (703) July 1945 division of Germany -Nuremburg Trials (706) war crimes several leaders executed

  8. Occupation of Japan -General Douglas MacArthur -reformed Japan’s economy -established democratic government -guaranteed basic freedoms Constitution still exists as Japan’s government

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