this week: w – pacific front homework: truman’s options prepare for tomorrow’s debate
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SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF THE SEM.:. Next Week: Mon – Final Exam Review Tues- Final Exam. THIS WEEK: W – Pacific Front Homework: Truman’s Options prepare for tomorrow’s debate TH–Atomic bomb debate Hand out Final Study Guide F – Bring in all your materials, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
THIS WEEK:W – Pacific Front
Homework: Truman’s Options
prepare for tomorrow’s debate
TH–Atomic bomb debate
Hand out Final Study Guide
F – Bring in all your materials,
Day to work on study guide
WWII will be on your final
Next Week:
Mon – Final Exam Review
Tues- Final Exam
SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF THE SEM.:
WWII in the
PACIFIC
OUR STRATEGY IN THE PACIFIC…
“Island Hopping”
We Start from Hawaii….
June ‘42
MIDWAYUS surprises Japan!
Gone: 4 Jap. A.C. carriers 322 Jap. planes
• 6 months long
• 1st land invasion
• Kamikaze's & psychological warfare
• Traps, Snipers, Blockhouses
• 24,000 Jap. die, • 1,200 US die
Aug ’42
GUADALCANA
L
FDR Dies June ‘45
Harry S. Truman
Takes Over…
He was FDR’s VP
‘45
IWO JIMA
•Rarely saw a Japanese soldier• Jap = Below
•16 miles of tunnels•Strategy = “No Japan. survivors”
• Am = Above• 36 days• 22,000 Jap. Die• 25,000 Americans
•1-3 wounded/dead
•US gets a base
More soldiers won Medals of Honor at Iwo Jima than in
any other battle in US
History.
June ’45
OKINAWA
•Japanese lie•135,000 civilians die from bombing or suicide•US wins!
•Japan can’t protect Itself anymore!
M.G.I.O
JAPAN Aug ‘45Atomic bombs dropped on
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Japan Surrenders Sept. ’45VJ-DAY