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Pacific Theatre: World War II Battles and Strategies

Explore the pivotal battles and strategies in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, including Pearl Harbor, the Fall of the Phillipines, Battle of Midway, and Operation Cartwheel. Learn about the decisive moments that shaped the outcome of the war.

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Pacific Theatre: World War II Battles and Strategies

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  1. Pacific Theatre

  2. The Effects of Pearl Harbor • Tactical Success… • Operational and Strategic failure…

  3. The Fall of the Phillipines

  4. Bataan Death March

  5. Battle of Aircraft carriers… American and Australian Navies defend an attack near Australia… Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942)

  6. Japanese try to trap the U.S. navy… Worst naval defeat in Japanese History… Turning point of the war in the Pacific… Battle of Midway (June 1942)

  7. China-Burma-India • Chiang Kai-Shek… • Lt. General Joseph Stillwell… • British… • U.S….

  8. Field Marshall William Slim • Merrill’s Marauders

  9. Twin Drives

  10. Operation Cartwheel

  11. “Island Hopping” • Capturing strategic Japanese controlled islands while bypassing the rest… • Trying to quickly advance to get Japan within range of U.S. bombers…

  12. American forces had been forced out in 1942… General Douglas MacArthur had claimed “I Shall Return” Phillipines (October 1944)

  13. Leyte Gulf • Crossing the T

  14. Iwo Jima (February – March 1945) • In 5,000 years of history, Japanese soil had never been invaded… • Japanese dig into the volcanic rock 1,500 rooms and 16 miles of tunnels • They planned not to survive and to inflict such heavy losses on the U.S. that an invasion of Japan would not happen…

  15. More than 250 U.S. ships damaged by Kamikaze - “Divine Wind”…. Their determination proved that the Japanese would not surrender… Okinawa (April – June 1945)

  16. Operation Cornet: The Plan to Invade Japan

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