29.4 victory in europe and the pacific
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29.4Victory in Europe and the Pacific
Objective 1: Summarize how the Allies began to push back Japan in the Pacific.Objective 2: Describe the reasons for the final defeat of the Axis.
Dresden
Surrender• Dresden “total war”
episode part of unconditional surrender. Necessary?
• 3 million allies from southwest, 6 million Russians from east.
• Hitler kills himself 4/30, Berlin falls 5/2.
• May 8, 1945. V-E Day.
Pacific Tactics and Aftermath
• Japanese used harsh tactics and followed bushido code.
• Bataan, Philippines surrender 80,000 US troops in Feb. after harsh fighting and shortages.
• Bataan Death March
Prison Camps• Tojo's orders regarding POWs was
very clear. Guards, "must supervise their charges rigidly, taking care not to become obsessed with mistaken ideas of humanitarianism or swayed by personal feelings toward prisoners that might grow over a long incarceration." (50) Rarely did top government officials visit any Japanese prison camps. Therefore, the local commanders could do as they wished without reprimand. However, considering the indoctrination of Japanese troops, reprimand was highly unlikely. If the commander wished, he could make anything, even whistling, a crime and inflict any type of punishment, including execution. (51)
Prisoners
THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN
• Who leads the way?– U.S. Navy (w/ Marines): Adm. Chester W. Nimitz– U.S. Army: Gen. Douglas MacArthur
• Strategy:– 2-Pronged Strategy: • Strangle Japanese shipping• Isolate & Eliminate Japanese–held islands
– Additional 3rd Element:• Bombing campaign against Japanese mainland
MacArthur’s Plan
• Looked to go on offensive after initial victories.
• Looked to move towards Japan by “island hopping” and cutting supply lines.
Japanese Retreat
• MacArthur retakes Philippines (“I have returned”)• Battle of Leyte Gulf last gamble and loss for
Japanese. Wiped out Navy.• Army, kamikaze only options left. • Bloody fighting at Iwo Jima • Okinawa (Japan 100,000 v. 50,000 US)
Kamikaze• “Divine Wind”• Used in Battle of Leyte Gulf,
Philippines• 424 kamikaze pilots sunk 16
ships, damaged 80• Similar suicidal resistance
shown by Japanese army on Iwo Jima, Okinawa
• Okinawa: 1900 kamikaze attacks sink 30 ships, damage 300, kill 5,000 sailors
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Iwo Jima
Atomic Bomb• Tokyo firebombing and
others means?• Manhattan Project
-First successful test in July 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico
• Truman decides to drop bomb for which reason?
• August 6, Hiroshima=73,000 dead.
• Aug. 9 Nagasaki, 37,500 dead
• Surrender to MacArthur Sep. 2. (V-J Day)
DETONATION SEQUENCE
NAGASAKI BOMBINGAUGUST 9, 1945
Nagasaki Before and After
Hiroshima Aftermath
Allies Military Dead Military Wounded Civilian Dead
France 213,000 400,000 350,000
Britain 264,000 277,000 93,000
United States 292,000 672,000 6,000
Soviet Union 7,500,000 14,012,000 15,000,000
Axis Military Dead Military Wounded Civilian Dead
Italy 242,000 66,000 153,000
Japan 1,300,000 4,000,000 672,000
Germany 3,500,000 5,000,000 780,000
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