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Allies Stem the Japanese Tide

Allies Stem the Japanese Tide. Zoe Doucette, Kyle Kobara, Sarah Escobedo, Garrett Peterson. The Allies Stem the Japanese Tide. While the Allies agreed that defeating the Nazi’s was their first priority, the U.S did not enter the war until V-E Day to fight Japan.

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Allies Stem the Japanese Tide

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  1. Allies Stem the Japanese Tide Zoe Doucette, Kyle Kobara, Sarah Escobedo, Garrett Peterson

  2. The Allies Stem the Japanese Tide • While the Allies agreed that defeating the Nazi’s was their first priority, the U.S did not enter the war until V-E Day to fight Japan. • The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had luckily missed the Pacific Fleet’s submarines and more importantly they missed the Fleet’s aircraft carriers which were out at sea.

  3. Japanese Advances • On the asian mainland, the japanese troops overran Hong Kong, French Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, and much more of China. • When the American and Filipino troops were against a wall, President Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the battlefield. He took his wife and son and pledged to his thousands of troops who were left behind “I shall return”

  4. Doolittle's Raid • A daring raid on the Japanese on April 18th 1942 • Named Doolittle’s Raid after Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle that led 16 bombers during the attack • The U.S. Bombed important Japanese cities such as Tokyo

  5. Battle of Coral Sea • A 5 day battle against Japan in May 1942 over the Coral Sea. • This battle took place in the air and not a single shot was fired by surface ships. • First time since the battle at pearl harbor that the Japanese had been turned back.

  6. Battle of Midway 6 months after Pearl Harbor America intercepted Japan's surprise attacks using radar technology American planes take over, caught and attacked Japanese at a vulnerable time Americans sunk heavy cruisers, and 4 fleet carriers, Japanese lost over 5,000 men

  7. Allies go on Offensive Hitler believed the allied forces were not strong enough and would break apart if Germany attacked The Ardennes Offensives was an attack focused on America, which created a fault in the Allied front line Hitler planned to use all military force, scatter the Allies and take Antwerp Allies launched a counterattack against the Germans, but from december 18th on, the fighting was at a tie The lack of fuel was clear, and Germans left their vehicles and traveled back on foot

  8. Japanese Defense • Japanese send entire fleet into Leyte Gulf to defend against Allied invasion of the Philippines • Lost 10,500 soldiers and virtually all of their fleet • tested out new battle tactic called kamikaze, or suicide-plane attacks in which pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allie ships

  9. Iwo Jima “Sulfur Island” • Critical to US as base from which heavily loaded bombers could reach Japan • US Allie invasion resulted in catastrophic losses for the Japanese • US successfully took Iwo Jima, only 200 of 20,700 Japanese soldiers lived • US only needed Okinawa in order to invade Japan home islands

  10. Battle for Okinawa • April 1945 Marines invade Okinawa to take hold of air force bases • 1,900 kamikaze attacks sunk 30 ships, damaged 300 and killed almost 5,000 seamen • Ended June 21, 1945 • Named bloodiest battle in the Pacific with 14,000 American deaths, 110,000 Japanese deaths • Next step: Invade Japan’s homelands

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