Transcript The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor

The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor
• December 8, 1941,
U.S. declares war on
Japan
• European first
philosophy, PacificDefensive
• First six months—
Japan takes over
Hong Kong, parts of
China, various islands
Philippines-Bataan Death March
• General Douglas
MacArthur leads U.S.
troops in Philippines
• Ordered to leave
without troops
• MacArthur vows, “I
Shall Return.”
• 60-80 miles march, At
least 16,000
Americans and
Filipino’s were killed
U.S. Rebounds in the Pacific
• James Doolittle
& Doolittle’s
Raid on Japan,
April 1942
• Battle of the
Coral SeaJapanese stopped
in Australia
effort
View from plane of
Doolittle’s Crew
Turning Point - Pacific
• The Battle of the
Midway, in June of
1942, led by
Admiral Chester
Nimitz
• 4 days-U.S. uses
codebreakers to
learn of attack
• Now an offensive
war
Strategy – “Island Hopping”
• Guadalcanal “The Island
of Death”
• Japanese “The fork in the
road which leads to
victory for them or for
us.”
• August 1942-February
1943
• Island Hopping
successfully follows
(Guam used as center
hopper)
Battle of Leyte Gulf
• October 1944- Three
days of battle…
Japanese disaster (3
battleships, over 500
planes destroyed)
• MacArthur “People of
the Philippines, I have
returned.”
• No more Japanese
Navy
Iwo Jima
• U.S. can reach Japan
from Iwo Jima
• Greatest number of
casualties for U.S.,
most heavily defended
spot on earth
• Taken March 1945
• Only 200 Japanese
survived
Okinawa
• Okinawa is worse,
many Kamikaze
attacks
• June 1945, U.S.
takes Island, can
see Japanese fight
to the death
• 110,000 Japanese
lives lost…next?
World War II Ends
• Manhattan Project – led by
J. Robert Oppenheimer
• August 6, 1945 – Atomic
Bomb in Hiroshima (Little
Boy)
• August 9, 1945 – Atomic
Bomb in Nagasaki (Fat
Man)
• Japan surrenders, World
War II ends (officially
September 2, 1945)