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THE PTO
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Japan:
• After attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese seized Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, Malaya, Burma and the Dutch East Indies.
• The Japanese also defeated American and Filipino forces, led by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, in the Philippines.
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U.S. troops surrender to the Japanese in the Philippine Islands, May 6, 1942. A total of 11,500 Americans and Filipinos became POWs.
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Bataan Death March
YouTube - The Bataan Death March • The
Japanese forced about 60,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers to march 100 miles with little food or water after Japan defeated the Philippines in 1942.
Americans improvise to carry comrades who have collapsed along the road from a lack of food and water.
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• About 10,000 people died or were killed during the march.
Allied POWs with hands tied behind their backs pause during the Bataan Death March.
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When? – June 1942
Where? – Midway Island (Pacific Islands)
Results? - The U.S. sank four Japanese aircraft carriers.
Importance? – It limited Japan's ability to attack Hawaii again or other Allied positions.
World War II: Major Battles (1942 – 1944)
Battle of Midway Island:
Midway-Video
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Island Hopping in the Pacific
• The U.S. began a policy of island hopping, using islands as stepping-stones towards Japan.
Video: Island Hopping - The U.S. invasion of the Tarawa Atoll. (5:52)
• The two main goals of the U.S. in the Pacific were:
I. to regain the Philippines.
II. to invade Japan.
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Campaign for Guadalcanal:
• When? – August 1942
• Where? Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands (Pacific Islands)
• Results? – The U.S. defeated the Japanese, gaining control of the island.
• Importance? – Guadalcanal became a military base from which to counterattack the Japanese.
Video – Dogfight over Guadalcanal
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· By February of 1945, the U.S. had recaptured the Philippines and captured the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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The photograph became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.
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· The Japanese continued to fight, oftentimes using kamikaze attacks against U.S. ships.
The Yokosuka D4Y3 dive bomber piloted by Yoshinori Yamaguchi strikes the USS Essex, November 25, 1944.Yoshinori Yamaguchi's plane explodes in a ball of fire.
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Defeat of Japan
· The U.S. planned to invade Japan in 1945, though experts warned that the invasion could cost over a million casualties.
Stalin, Truman and Churchill at the Potsdam Conference.
· Upon learning about the atomic bomb, Pres. Truman sent the Japanese the Potsdam Declaration, warning them to surrender or face “prompt and utter destruction.”
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The first atomic bomb ever made was a uranium-enriched bomb. It was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.
· Unaware of the atomic bombs, the Japanese ignored the Potsdam Declaration.
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Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.
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· On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing at least 70,000 people and destroying most of the city.
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A Uranium bomb, the first nuclear weapon in the world, was dropped in Hiroshima City. It was estimated that its energy was equivalent to 15 kilotons of TNT. Aerial photograph from 80 kilometers away, taken about 1 hour after the dropping.
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The aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
YouTube - Hiroshima: Dropping the Bomb
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Soldiers take a breather after making camp. The 25th Infantry Division was a large part of the effort to force the Japanese off Guadalcanal.
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· On August 9, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing at least 40,000 people.
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 60,000 feet into the air on the morning of August 9 1945
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Number of Atomic Bomb Casualties: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Deaths Injuries
In 10,000’s
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· On August 14, Japan officially surrendered ending World War II. This date became known as V-J Day (Victory over Japan).
For millions of Americans, Alfred Eisenstaedt's 1945 LIFE photograph of a sailor stamping a masterly kiss on a nurse symbolized the cathartic joy of V-J Day.