Transcript War in the Pacific

War in the Pacific
I) Roosevelt’s Respons to
Japanese Aggression
• A) Diplomatic
negotiations
• B) Freeze
Japanese assets
• C) Trade Embargo
(especially oil)
• D) Pearl Harbor
gets the US
involved
12/7/1941
II) The Turning Point
• A) Midway Island
• B) Just six months
after Pearl Harbor
June 1942
• C) Aircraft carrier
is proved better
than battleship
III) Island Hopping
• A) Short aircraft range
prevents assault on Japan
• B) Slowly retake each
island on the way to Japan
• C) Guadalcanal Aug. 1942;
Tarawa Nov. 1943; Saipan
June 1944; Guam July
1944; Iwo Jima March
1945; Okinawa Apr.-June
1945
IV) The war comes to an end
• A) Tokyo Firebombed-March 9,
1945 (100,000 killed)
• B) 68 other Japanese cities
destroyed
• C) Atomic bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and NagasakiAugust 6&9, 1945
• D) USSR declares war on Japan
August 8, 1945
• E) Japan surrenders September
2nd, 1945