Japan

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Japans Pacific Campaign
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Bellringer

• On your own paper---
• What was the name of the pact between Russia and
  Germany? (It was secret)
• Name the type of warfare that the Germans were
  now using.
• Name the famous French general. (There is an
  airport named after him.
• Name the man who would replace Neville
  Chamberlain as the Prime Minister of Great
  Britain.
• FDR signed this ______________ allowing the US to
  loan weapons and money to other countries to
  fight Germany, in return we could lease
  air/military space.

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SURPRISE!!

• American forces were cracking Japanese codes with
  the Enigma Machine. This machine allowed the
  Americans to crack any secret messages that were
  being sent.
• Aware of the Japanese plans for Southeast Asia
• The U.S. government sent aid to strengthen
  Chinese resistance.
• 1941- Roosevelt cut off oil shipments to Japan
  when they conquered French Indochina Vietnam,
  Cambodia, and Laos.
• Didnt stop them.
• Japans Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had a plan to
  attack the dagger pointed at Japans throat.
• Which was what?

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Pearl HarborDecember 7 1941
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The Attack
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December 7th- The Day of Infamy

• The battleship Arizona was hit with an armor
  piercing bomb which penetrated the forward
  ammunition compartment, blowing the ship apart
  and sinking it within seconds. Of the military
  personnel lost at Pearl Harbor, 1,177 were from
  the Arizona. The first shots fired were from the
  USS Ward (DD-139) on a midget submarine that had
  surfaced outside of Pearl Harbor the Ward did
  successfully sink the midget sub at approximately
  655, about an hour before the assault on Pearl
  Harbor.
• Within 2 hours of the attack- Japan had sunk or
  damaged 19 ships- 8 battleships and the overall
  death toll reached 2,350, including 68 civilians,
  and 1,178 injured.
• The next day Roosevelt addressed congress and
  asked for war!

WAR
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Japanese Victories

• Japan quickly conquered Guam and Wake Island.
• They then turned their attention to the
  Philippines.
• And Philippines fall in 1942 under the command of
  Admiral Yamamoto when they marched into Filipino
  capital of Manila.
• American and Filipino forces set up on the Bataan
  Peninsula. In April, the Japanese took Bataan.
• Japan begins capturing British holdings including
  Hong Kong, Singapore and Dutch East Indies
• Japanese treated captured people brutally

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Victories contd

• Seized Hong Kong
• Invaded Malaya from the sea
• By 1942 they had reached Singapore which was at
  the southern tip of Malay Peninsula.
• Within a month, Japan had conquered the Dutch
  East Indies. (RESOURCES)
• Took Burma, where they wanted to launch a strike
  against India.
• Now had control of 1 million square miles of
  Asian land.
• They were absolutely BRUTAL to the 150 million
  people living in these conquered lands.

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Bataan Death March

• 70,00 Allied prisoners were marched 50 miles up
  the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines. Many
  were beaten and killed during the march- only
  54,000 survived the march
• Prisoners were attacked for assisting someone
  failing due to weakness, or for no apparent
  reason whatsoever. Strings of Japanese trucks
  were known to drive over anyone who fell. Riders
  in vehicles would casually stick out a rifle
  bayonet and cut a string of throats in the lines
  of men marching alongside the road. Accounts of
  being forcibly marched for five to six days with
  no food and a single sip of water are in postwar
  archives including filmed reports.

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Primary Source

• I was questioned by a Japanese officer, who
  found out that I had been in a Philippine Scout
  Battalion. The Japanese hated the ScoutsAnyway,
  they took me outside and I was forced to watch as
  they buried six of my Scouts alive. They made the
  men dig their own graves, and then had them kneel
  down in a pit. The guards hit them over the head
  with shovels to stun them and piled the earth on
  top.
• Lieutenant John Spainhower

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The Allies Strike Back

• Japanese seemed unbeatable after all of these
  victories.
• US wanted revenge for Pearl Harbor.
• US bomber attack Tokyo and other Japanese cities
• raid is not very successful, but made a point.
• Battle of Coral Sea- Americans stop the Japanese
  advance beginning may 1942
• New kind of fighting- done by air planes- not
  ships
• Allies suffered the most losses but considered it
  a vicoty

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• Battle of Coral Sea

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The Battle of Midway

• Japanese sends powerful fleet to capture Midway
  Island
• Midway Island- 1500 miles west of Hawaii
• -US destroys Japans navel fleet and Japan
  retreats
• This was a key American air field
• The Battle of Midway- turned the tide of the war
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vsKXVTZo6gIg

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MacArthurs Plan- An Allied Offensive

• Douglas MacArthur- American army commander in the
  Pacific
• Plan- Island hopping past enemy strong holds an
  attack weaker Japanese bases
• He thought that storming each island would be a
  waste of valuable time.
• Battle of Guadalcanal- terrible battle that ends
  in an Allied victory
• Lasted 6 months Japan lost 24,000 out of 36,000
  men

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