Retaking the Pacific

Post Pearl Harbor

•Pearl Harbor +•Philippines•Wake Island•Guam•Midway•Bataan

Advance in the Pacific• Colonies Fall = • Burma• Malaya• Singapore• Dutch East Indies• Thailand

• Finish off U.S. …

Bataan Death Match

•Surrender•Bushido•Death March

Early Strategy

•Allies Weakened•Active Defense

Raid on Tokyo

•U.SS. Hornet•Secret Mission•One-Way•Success?

Battle of the Coral Sea•Australia•Active

Defense• Technology

Rules•Outcome

Battle of Midway – Part I

• Strategic• Isoruku

Yamamoto• Chester Nimitz• Showdown!• Advantage #1

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Battle of Midway – Part II• Technology

Rules!• Advantage #2• Victory!• Balance of

power

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Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)

•Why?•Operation

Shoestring• Jungle Warfare• Significance• Island hopping

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Battle of Leyte Gulf•Obligation• Leyte island• Japanese

Response• Kamikaze!• Significance #1• Significance #2

Iwo Jima

•Stepping Stone•Deadly Fighting•Banzai!•Mt. Surabachi•Signal

Okinawa

•We arrive!•Bloodiest Battle•Question

The Atom Bomb – Part I

• Scientists flee• Albert Einstein• Enrico Fermi•Manhattan

Project• Trinity

The Atom Bomb – Part II• Difficult Decision• Rationale• Warning• Enola Gay + Little

Boy• Destruction• Bockscar + Fat Man• VJ Day

Final Tallies• U.S. = 300,000

• U.S.S.R. = 27 million

• Germany = 4 million

• Japan = 6 million

• China = 22 million

• Jews = 6 million

• TOTAL = 60 million