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WW II
Pacific Theater of Operations
The Japanese in the Pacific
• By 1942 the Japanese controlled much of the Pacific
• US Navy (aircraft carriers) started to turn the tide at the Battle of Wake Island
*Bataan Death March: April, 1942
• 76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.
• April 9, 1942 – Japan captures the Philippines
War in the Pacific…Island Hopping: invade Japan by capturing
islands in the Pacific along the way
Island Hopping
• i. Navajo
code-talkers
help US
forces
communicate
without
Japanese
interception
*Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942
American Aircraft Carriers- Sink 4 Japanese Carriers
Turning point in the Naval war, U.S. now has control of the Skies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4pUD9qWKs8(Battle of Midway video #16)
*Japanese Kamikaze Planes:The Scourge of the South Pacific
Kamikaze Pilots
Suicide Bombers
*US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0gdFisD9k (Battle of Iwo Jima video #17)
*The Beginning of theAtomic Age
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“Little Boy” dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima
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Hiroshima – August 6, 1945* 70,000 killed
immediately.* 48,000 buildings.
destroyed.* 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning & cancer later.
“Fat Man” Dropped on Nagasaki
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Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
* 40,000 killed immediately.
* 60,000 injured.* 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning& cancer later.
*Japanese A-Bomb Survivors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OI9xrJ8Zw (atomic bomb video #18)
*V(ictory)-J(apan) Day (September 2, 1945)
*V-J Day in Times Square, NYC
Post War
Yalta Conference (February, 1945)• Leaders of the
three allied nations agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation controlled by the allies– Poland and the
Soviets in the East
– The US and Britain in the West
*The Division of Germany:1945 - 1990
Division of Berlin
*The Division of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War
*The Creation of the U. N.
Currently 193 nations
*The Marshall Plan
The Marshal Plan. • channeled over $13
billion to finance the
economic recovery of
Europe
• The Plan successfully
sparked economic recovery
*The Nuremberg War Trials:Members of the Nazi Party
were charged with Crimes Against Humanity