2. 1. Philippines
• The islands were an important US base
• US General there was Douglas MacArthur
• MacArthur was ordered to leave because it
looked like the Japanese were going to win
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6. • People left behind ran low on supplies
• They surrendered to Japanese on April 9, 1942
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9. Bataan Death March
• They were forced to march over 100 miles to
prison camp
• Death estimates range from 7,000 – 10,000
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13. 2. Doolittle raid
• Led by Jimmy Doolittle
• Aircraft carrier got to within 700 miles of
Japan
• 16 bombers dropped bombs over Tokyo
• Caused Japan to split their force of aircraft
carriers
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18. 3. Battle of the Coral Sea
• First sea battle where all the fighting was done
by airplanes
• Stopped the Japanese advance toward
Australia
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21. 4. Midway Island
• The Japanese code had been cracked and the
Americans were ready
• Stopped the Japanese sea offensive
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23. 5. Iwo Jima
• Led by Admiral Chester Nimitz
• Important because it could be
an emergency stop for
Americans
29. • Kamikaze fighting – pilots who deliberately
tried to crash their planes into an enemy ship
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31. Manhattan Project
• Try to make a uranium bomb before the
Germans did
• Set up a secret city near Knoxville, Tennessee
called Oak Ridge
• Trial bomb was set off in New Mexico on July
16, 1945
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34. • FDR dies of a stroke and Harry Truman is new
president
• Thought it better to use the bomb than to
waste hundreds of thousands of lives
35. Potsdam Declaration
• Major powers of the world met and
demanded that Japan surrender
unconditionally
• Japan refused
36. • On August 6, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay
bombed Hiroshima
• The US asked Japan to surrender
• They refused
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44. • On August 9, 1945 the US dropped another
bomb on Nagasaki
• The next day Japan surrendered
45. • War “officially” ended onboard the US ship
Missouri where MacArthur met with two of
the emperor’s representatives
Editor's Notes
FDR didn’t want to risk losing MacArthurAs MacArthur left, he promised the Filipinos, “I shall return.”Later in the war when he returns, says “I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil, soil consecrated by the blood of our two peoples.”
Disease and hunger
No food or water for days at a timeBeaten or killed for talking, resting, or helping others who had collapsed…fell behind, killed by a bayonet
Japan didn’t know where they had come from…the planes couldn’t return to the aircraft carrier, so landed in China, Russia and JapanSent two to Australia and the other 4 to the Pacific
Referred to target as AF…did a test and sent out a fake message that the water system on midway was out…later messages from Japan said the Americans were low on water on AF…now they knew where the attack would happen
82 days…kamikazes 1,465 attacks, sinking 30 US ships and damaging 164 others…Japanese ordered civilians to commit suicide rather than surrender to the Americans…gave out hand grenades…12,000 Americans and 117,000 Japanese soldiers died
Americans didn’t expect much resistance after bombing for a week and then several hours of heavy gunfire…Japanese resisted until only 17 of the 4,500 Japanese were left.
Germans were close to finishing the atomic bomb…imagine what Hitler could have dome if he had gained the atomic bomb first…the Manhattan project only built 3 bombs…one practice and the two we dropped on Japan
“Let there be no mistake about it. I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt that it should be used.”
Nicknamed “little boy”Equal to 20,000 tons of dynamiteDestroyed the city and killed 80,000 civilians and another 80,000 suffered radiation burns
Nicknamed “fat man”Killed 40,000
Costliest war in history…15 million soldiers and 20 million civilians diedCost $300 billion
