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Sec. 2: The Allied Response Pacific Theatre

Ch. 14: World War II, 1930-1945. Sec. 2: The Allied Response Pacific Theatre. The Early Years after Pearl Harbor. Followed by string of Japanese victories Singapore, Hong Kong, Burma, several pacific islands, and the Philippines fell in April, 1942 The Bataan Death March

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Sec. 2: The Allied Response Pacific Theatre

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  1. Ch. 14: World War II, 1930-1945 Sec. 2: The Allied ResponsePacific Theatre

  2. The Early Years after Pearl Harbor • Followed by string of Japanese victories • Singapore, Hong Kong, Burma, several pacific islands, and the Philippines fell in April, 1942 • The Bataan Death March • Japanese forced 70,000 American & Filipino POWs to march up Bataan Peninsula to distant prison camp • Tropical heat, starvation, lack of water, and brutal treatment resulted in 600 American deaths; thousands more died while at the prison camp

  3. Bataan POWs

  4. Pacific Battles, 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea (May,1942) • Japanese plan to attack British in New Guinea (Northeast of Australia) • Allies attack Japan first; both lose a carrier but 1st time Japan had been stopped Battle of Midway (June, 1942) • Japanese hoped to capture U.S. base at Midway Island and lure U.S. navy into sea battle • Although U.S. outnumbered, it had broken Japanese code so was able to plan defense in advance • Tremendous U.S. victory as they sunk 4 Japanese carriers while losing only one; turning pt. of war in Pacific

  5. Island Hopping or Leapfrogging U.S. followed strategy known as leapfrogging • Took weaker islands while skipping over Japanese strongholds, moving ever closer to Japan itself • Cut off from its supply routes, the strongholds would eventually fall on their own 1942-’44: US Marines fought series of death struggles with Japanese forces entrenched on island fortresses • Guadalcanal; the Solomon, Gilbert, Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands

  6. By 1944, Japan’s Navy in Retreat Battle of Leyte Gulf- October, 1944 • Largest naval battle ever in history of world • First major battle in U.S.’s attempt to retake the Philippines • Japanese 1st use of kamikazes, sinking tons of Allied ships but failing to win the battle • It would still take several more months of war to defeat Japan, but her control of the Pacific had come to an end

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