World War II

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World War II

• Part 2 - Pacific

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Japan on the offensive

• Guam - taken by Japan
• Wake Island taken by Japan
• Philippines attacked by Japan
• Bataan peninsula
• American and Filipino troops
• General MacArthur abandons the islands
• I shall return

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Japan on the offensive

• Japan takes Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia
• Focuses on all of the Philippines
• May 6, 1942 US surrenders
• Bataan Death March 10,000 US soldiers die being
  marched to POW camps
• 15,000 more die at the POW camp
• Moral outrage around the world
• Even Hitler was a little shocked

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Tide turns

• Summer 1942
• US destroys major part of Japanese navy and air
  force at Midway Island (near Hawaii)
• Guadalcanal months of bloody jungle warfare
• US wins, first conquest of Japanese-held territory

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Tide turns

• US tries to retake the Philippines
• Kamikazes attack US troops for first time off
  coast
• Battle for Manila (capital city)
• Destroys city, kills 100,000
• Japanese hold out until June 1945

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US victory seems assured

• Iwo Jima
• 25,000 US dead and wounded
• Only 250 Japanese survive
• 27 medals of honor awarded (most in a single
  battle
• Famous flag raising photograph
• Battle of Okinawa
• Japanese soil, open door to mainland Japan
• Kamikaze and banzai attacks
• 3 month battle
• 50,000 US dead and wounded

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Manhattan Project