Pacific War

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Pacific War

• 1941-1945

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Japans Frustration in China
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Japans Situation in 1940

• China quagmire U.S. relations
• Japan joins Axis Powers
• Allows move into French Indo-China
• Tripartite Pact
• Nonaggression pact with USSR
• Konoe Fumimaro Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
  Sphere.

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Events Leading to War with the United States

• U.S. embargo on weapons shipments to Japan (1938)
• U.S. trade treaty with Japan expires (1940)
• U.S., Holland, and Britain restrict sale of
  stategic goods.
• Oil major Japanese need.
• ABCD encirclement perceived by Japan
• Failure of Hull-Nomura talks (summer, 1941)

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Decision for War

• October, 1941 deadline for oil agreement.
• No agreement
• General Tojo Hideki made prime minister
• Why war was believed necessary.
• Logic of Japanese plan
• Pear Harbon (Dec. 7, 1941)

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Early Phases of Pacific War
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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1942
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Japanese Attack Routes
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MacArthur To Bataan

• December 23, 1941

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MacArthur to Australia

• March 12, 1942

I shall return!
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Singapore Captured
February 15, 1942
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Dutch East Indies
March, 1942
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Bataan Falls

• April 7, 1942

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Bataan Peninsula
Death March Route
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Doolittle Raid
April 18, 1942
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Mandalay Falls
May 2, 1941
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Corregidor Falls
May 6, 1942
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Battle of Coral Sea
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Battle of Midway
June 4-7, 1942
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Yorktown damaged
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Mikuma just before sinking
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Beginning of the End
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Battle of Leyte Gulf

• October, 1944

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I have returned!
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Battle of Iwo Jima

• March, 1945

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Fire Storm in Tokyo

• March 9-10, 1945

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Battle of Okinawa

• April-June, 1945

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Potsdam Declaration
Unconditional Surrender
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A-Bomb Story
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Hiroshima

• August 6, 1945

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Nagasaki

• August 9, 1945

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Russians Invade Manchuria

• August 9, 1945

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Emperor Surrenders

• August 15, 1945

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U.S. Occupation Forces Land in Japan

• August 26, 1945

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Formal Surrender

• USS Missouri
• September 2, 1945

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Occupation Reforms
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