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Page 1: War in the Pacific Objectives Explain why Japan began a war with the U.S. List the reasons why the U.S. won the war

War in the Pacific

Page 2: War in the Pacific Objectives Explain why Japan began a war with the U.S. List the reasons why the U.S. won the war

Objectives

Explain why Japan began a war with the U.S.

List the reasons why the U.S. won the war

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List 3 facts about America’s war with Japan.

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Japan pre-1941

Militarism Imperialism Invasion of China Invasion of Korea Brink of war with USSR

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Problems with America

In response to Japanese aggression in Asia, the U.S. froze Japanese asset and embargoed these products from going to Japan:Scrap ironOil

Negotiations went nowhere

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Pearl Harbor

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Pearl Harbor

U.S. Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Surprise attack…7:55 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor

Japanese bombed Pacific Fleet and military airfields

U.S. casualties: 2,350 servicemen and civilians died; 1,178 wounded; 21 ships and 323 aircraft destroyed or damagedUSS Arizona sunk, killing 1,177

Japanese casualties: less than 100 men, 29 planes, 5 midget submarines

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Pearl Harbor: U.S. reaction

U.S. declared war on Japanon Dec. 8, 1941

U.S. mobilizes for total war

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Pearl Harbor: U.S. reaction

Executive Order 9066: Japanese living on the West Coast of the U.S. forced to move to internment camps

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If you were FDR in 1942, what would you have done about the Japanese living in the U.S.? Why?

Share your answers with a partner.

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Pearl Harbor: World reaction

Great Britain declared war on Japan on Dec. 8, 1941

Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. on Dec. 11, 1941

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Battles/Engagements

Doolittle raid – April 1942Battle of Coral Sea – May 1942Midway – June 1942Guadalcanal – Nov. 1942

Through 1942, the Japanese expanded their empire in Asia and in the Pacific, but after that:

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Battles/Engagements

Solomon Islands – Nov. 1943Kwajalein – Feb. 1944Leyte Gulf – Oct. 1944Iwo Jima – Feb. 1945Firebombing Tokyo – March 1945

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Note-check

Take a few minutes to compare notes with a partner. Clarify any info you don’t fully understand.

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Japanese atrocities

Rape of Nanking

Bataan Death March

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Kamikaze pilots

An honor to die for the emperor

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Atomic bomb

Decision by Truman His justification: would save

American lives Dropped on Hiroshima on

Aug. 6, 1945; no Japanese surrender

Dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945; Japanese surrender

Death toll from bombs: approx. 214,000

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End of the Pacific War

USSR declared war on Japan on Aug. 8, 1945

Japan surrendered Aug. 14, 1945

Deaths: U.S. approx. 500,000; Japan approx. 2 million

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Summary/Discussion

Why did Japan start the war with the U.S.?

Why did the U.S. win the war?

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Stump your partner

Take a minute to come up with 1 question. Then see if you can stump your partner.

We’ll then answer harder questions as a class.


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