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Hitler is dead! So now what????

Hitler is dead! So now what????. The Pacific Theater. After Pearl Harbor. Japanese captured Hong Kong , French Indochina , Malaya , Burma , Thailand , New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Philippines , Guam , Wake Island , part of Aleutian islands. Battle of the Coral Sea. Coral Sea.

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Hitler is dead! So now what????

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  1. Hitler is dead! So now what????

  2. The Pacific Theater

  3. After Pearl Harbor... Japanese captured Hong Kong, French Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, New Guinea, SolomonIslands, Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, part of Aleutian islands.

  4. Battle of the Coral Sea Coral Sea May ‘42

  5. 1st battle where carriers do most of fighting (not battleships) U.S. victory Result: Australia’s saved

  6. Crew of the USS Lexington abandoning ship

  7. Battle of Midway NW of Hawaii June ‘42

  8. 4 Japanese aircraft carriers & 100s of “zeros” destroyed 1st major Japanese defeat

  9. Hiryu on fire & drifting after attack by US carrier Air Forces US Strategy in Pacific Theater?

  10. Island Hopping Capture key islands, build bases, & surround Japan Goal: Cut off supplies

  11. U.S. Takes the Offensive ‘42 Adm. Chester Nimitz: Pacific Zone

  12. Gen. Douglas MacArthur: SW Pacific

  13. Guadalcanal Japan began to build airfield here to invade Australia

  14. Aug 7, ‘42 10,000 marines sent to take island & stop them

  15. 1st U.S. marines land on Guadalcanal

  16. ENEMY: daily conditions Scorching heat & humidity Poisonous insects Tropical fevers (malaria & dysentery)

  17. Lasted 6 months 25,000 Japanese dead Fight to the death!

  18. 1st major territorial loss for Japanese Showed they could be beaten, but it would be BLOODY

  19. Sullivan brothers U.S. Casualties US lost 2 cruisers, 7 destroyers, & 1600 men

  20. Philippines Japan takes Manila in ‘42 US & Filipino troops surrender, but...

  21. ...must march from Bataan Peninsula: 65 miles!! Bataan Death March

  22. I shall return! I make a promise! Who am I?

  23. Battle of Leyte Gulf June ‘44 Biggest naval battle in history (282 ships)

  24. USS Indiana Firing on Japanese positions on Leyte

  25. Kamikaze (Divine Wind) pilots 1st used Pilots who crashed into US ships with bomb-loaded planes

  26. MacArthur returns Oct 20, ‘44

  27. Iwo Jima Feb. ‘45 750 miles from Japan American flag being raised at Mt. Suribachi

  28. Japanese Strategy No Japanese survivors! Kill 10 US soldiers before you are! Fight from underground tunnels!

  29. Bombed island for 2 months before sending in Marines U.S. Strategy Launch 110,000 Marines & 880 warships to island

  30. No front lines U.S. Weapons of choice: Liquid gas, Napalm, & grenades U.S. rarely saw Japanese soldiers

  31. Another U.S. victory

  32. Battle of Okinawa April ‘45 350 miles South of Japan Bloodiest island fight in Pacific

  33. Knowing what you do now about how the Japanese defended these islands, what can you deduce about the end of the war in the Pacific?

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