War Plan Rainbow 5

Learning Objectives

• Understand what prompted the concern leading to the planning of Rainbow 5

Prologue to War

• West– Rise of Fascist powers

• 1935 Hitler Repudiates terms of Treaty of Versailles

– Spanish Civil War– Italian invasion of Ethiopia

• East– Invasion of China– Battles of Khalkhin Gol

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War Breaks out in Europe

• Invasion of Poland• Invasion of Denmark & Norway• Occupation of the Baltic States• Attack on Finland

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1940

• Fall of France– Vichy Regime

• Japan-China Stalemate• North Africa• Middle East

1941 War becomes Global

• Germany Invades Russia• US Drawn into the War

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The Japanese Plan

• The eastern plan required• initial attacks on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,

with carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet

– following this attack with • seizure of the Philippines• cutting the U.S. lines of communication by seizing Guam and

Wake

• The southern plans called for:• attacking Malaya and Hong Kong, and

– following with attacks against • the Bismarck Archipelago,• Java and Sumatra

– isolating Australia and New Zealand

1942

• The Allies regroup– Battle of Coral Sea– Battle of Midway– Battle of Stalingrad– Battle of El Alamein

1943

• The Allies Gain Momentum– Operation Torch– Operation Husky– Operation Avalanche– Guadalcanal– Battle of Kursk– Battle of the Atlantic

1944-45

• The Axis Collapse– D-Day– Vistula–Oder Offensive– Philippines recaptured– Battle of the Bulge– Hiroshima & Nagasaki