Transcript Standard 10.4.4

World War II
The Pacific
Theater
Set-up for Note taking
Pearl Harbor
Doolittle Raid
The Philippines
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Okinawa
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Pearl Harbor
• December 7, 1941
• United States enters the War.
• 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack
Philippines
• In January of 1942, the Japanese take
control of the islands.
• In 1944, the Americans returned to
liberate the Philippines
• The fighting nearly destroyed the
Japanese navy.
Doolittle Raid
Doolitle Raid
• The U.S. wanted revenge for Pearl Harbor
• Send Lieutenant Colonel James H.
Doolittle to bomb Tokyo and other
Japanese cities.
• Raised American morale and gave them a
psychological advantage.
Battle of Midway
• Admiral Chester Nimitz planned to ambush a
Japanese fleet heading towards the island of
Midway.
• Outnumbered 4 ships to 1 and allowed the
Japanese to attack first.
• Attacked Japanese ships with planes
stationed on them.
• US destroys 332 Japanese planes and all
their aircraft carriers.
• Japanese were forced to retreat.
Battle of Guadalcanal
• Japan was building an air base on August 7,
1942.
• US and Australia destroy the airbase before it
could be completed
• Fight for control for over six months.
• Japan finally retreated in February of 1943.
Okinawa
• Largest amphibious invasion on Pacific Front
• April 1, 1945 – September 7, 1945
• More ships, troops, supplies, bombs, and naval
guns fired than any other operation in the
Pacific.
• Needed to control island to attack Japan
• Casualties = 38,000 Americans wounded and
12,000 killed or missing
• Over 107,000 Japanese and Okinawan
conscripts killed, and perhaps 100,000
Okinawan civilians
Hiroshima
• US at Japan’s door
• Rather than risking an invasion of Japan, the
U.S. hoped to get Japan to surrender by
dropping a new deadly atomic bomb on the
Japanese city of Hiroshima.
• On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped
killing 73, 000 people.
• Hundreds of thousands more would die of
radiation
Nagasaki
• August 9, 1945 the Unites States dropped
another atomic bomb on the Japanese city
of Nagasaki.
• Over 40, 000 people died in this attack