apush war in the pacific
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: APUSH war in the pacific](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082623/54718d4bb4af9fc80a8b4bc7/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Japanese blitzkrieg 1941-Summer 1942•Attack/fall of Guam, Wake Island, Singapore by Feb 1942•Fall of Philippines
•May 1942•Macarthur to Australia
![Page 2: APUSH war in the pacific](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082623/54718d4bb4af9fc80a8b4bc7/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
BataanDeath March
![Page 3: APUSH war in the pacific](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082623/54718d4bb4af9fc80a8b4bc7/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
May-June 1942 Turning Points in Pacific•MacArthur attacks Philippines•General Nimitz at Coral Sea (May)•Nimitz surprises Japanese at Midway Island (June)
•Destroyed Japanese Aircraft Carrier Fleet
![Page 4: APUSH war in the pacific](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082623/54718d4bb4af9fc80a8b4bc7/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
RED LINE= Defensive Perimeter of Japan
•Reached by August 1942
![Page 5: APUSH war in the pacific](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082623/54718d4bb4af9fc80a8b4bc7/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Island Hopping Aug 1942- June 1945• Aug 1942- Feb 1943: indicator of massive causalities in pushing back Japanese
•Japanese ordered to refuse surrender•Battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct 1944) destroys Japanese Navy•Iwo Jima (Feb 1945)- strategic bombing positioning
•Kamikaze use begins•Okinawa (June 1945)- closest island to Japan captured
•Japanese refuse surrender as Allies continually bomb mainland
![Page 6: APUSH war in the pacific](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082623/54718d4bb4af9fc80a8b4bc7/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Truman wants to use the bomb– Atomic Monopoly
• What implications does this have for the post-war era?
– Save American lives
• August 6, 1945: Hiroshima– 78,000 Killed
• August 9, 1945: Nagasaki– 100,000 Killed
![Page 7: APUSH war in the pacific](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082623/54718d4bb4af9fc80a8b4bc7/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)