The Rise of Dictators and World War II

War in the Pacific

The Bataan Death March began at Mariveles on April 10, 1942. Any troops who fell behind were executed. Japanese troops beat soldiers randomly, and denied the POWs food and water for many days. One of their tortures was known as the sun treatment. The Philippines in April is very hot. Therefore, the POWs were forced to sit in the sun without any shade, helmets, or water. Anyone who dared ask for water was executed. On the rare occasion they were given any food, it was only a handful of contaminated rice. When the prisoners were allowed to sleep for a few hours at night, they were packed into enclosures so tight that they could barely move. Those who lived collapsed on the dead bodies of their comrades. For only a brief part of the march would POWs be packed into railroad cars and allowed to ride. Those who did not die in the suffocating boxcars were forced to march about seven more miles until they reached their camp. It took the POWs over a week to reach their destination.

Bataan Death March

Hong Kong-1942

Wake Island-1941

Japan’s Early Victories

Japan captured the Phillipines-1942

“I shall return.” General Douglas MacArthur

Other Japanese conquests

Malaya Burma

ThailandGuam

Allies Turn the Tide

Doolittle Raid

Battle of Coral Sea

Battle of Midway

Island Hopping

Battle of Guadalcanal

1943

U.S. Marines fought for six months and gained their first

major land victory over Japan

Navajo Code TalkersNAMES OF AIRPLANES

PLANES WO-TAH-DE-NE-IH AIR FORCE

DIVE BOMBER GINI CHICKEN HAWK

TORPEDO PLANE TAS-CHIZZIE SWALLOW

OBS. PLAN NE-AS-JAH OWL

FIGHTER PLANE DA-HE-TIH-HI HUMMING BIRD

BOMBER PLANE JAY-SHO BUZZARD

PATROL PLANE GA-GIH CROW

TRANSPORT ATSAH EAGLE

NAMES OF SHIPS

SHIPS TOH-DINEH-IH SEA FORCE

BATTLESHIP LO-TSO WHALE

AIRCRAFT TSIDI-MOFFA-YE-HI BIRD CARRIER

SUBMARINE BESH-LO IRON FISH

MINE SWEEPER CHA BEAVER

DESTROYER CA-LO SHARK

TRANSPORT DINEH-NAY-YE-HI MAN CARRIER

CRUISER LO-TSO-YAZZIE SMALL WHALE

MOSQUITO BOAT TSE-E MOSQUITO

MacArthur returns to the Philippines - 1944

Kamikazes

Iwo JimaMore than

23,000 U.S. soldiers were

killed or wounded

Okinawa

Manhattan Project

Before After

Hiroshima – August 6, 1945

Nagasaki – August 9, 1945

Japan Surrenders – September 2, 1945