Transcript War in the Pacific

War in the Pacific
 Leader
of
the War in
the Pacific:
General
Douglas
MacArthur
Bataan Death March: Philippines
 Allied
troops (75,000 men)
surrendered on April 9, 1942
 Forced to walk 60 miles to a
prison camp
 22,000 Allied (American)
troops died
American
Battle of Midway
 June
of 1942
 1st major Japanese defeat
 USA takes the offense
 USA Navy destroyed 4 Japanese
aircraft carriers and hundreds of
airplanes
Battle of Midway
Dive Bombers
*Strategy to defeat Japan:
Island Hopping
March 1945:
 Allied
Forces took two major
islands:
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Both Islands are near Japan
Island Hopping
*Japan’s only defense:
Kamikaze Pilots
Kamikaze Pilots…Before
Kamikaze Pilots…After
Atomic Bomb
 Albert
Einstein warned the USA
about Germany’s plan to build the
A – Bomb
 Top – Secret Operation:
Manhattan Project
Albert Einstein
Using Atomic Bomb
August 6, 1945: B – 29 Bomber, Enola
Gay, dropped the A – bomb on
Hiroshima  70,000 killed  Little
Boy
 August 9, 1945: 2nd bomb on Nagasaki
 40,000 killed  Fat Man
 Many people died later from radiation
 est. 100,000
 August 15, 1945: Japan Surrendered 
V – J Day

B – 29 Bomber, Enola Gay
Hiroshima “Little Boy”
After
Nagasaki “Fat Man”
After
Radiation Poison
Japanese Surrender
Cost of the War
 40
million people died
 American causalities
322,000 died
800,000 injured
Was it necessary to use the Atomic
bomb on Japan?