Topic: War in the Pacific
MAIN IDEAS
Japan Advances
Key Allied Victories
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 Pearl Harbor weakened U.S. Pacific Fleet
o Could not retaliate right away
 Japan invaded many places the same day as Pearl Harbor
o Thailand and Burma
o Hong Kong and Singapore(British)
o Guam, Wake Island and Philippines(US)
 Douglas MacArthur could not stop Japanese in Philippines
o Left islands in March 1942, planned to return.
o 70,000 American and Filipino soldiers surrendered
 Forced to march 63 miles up the Bataan
Peninsula to prison camps; starved and beaten
 600 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos died
 Bataan Death March
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Battling toward Japan
Island Hopping
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Final Battles
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Chester Nimitz, US Admiral, determined to stop Japanese
advance
o Was able to crack secret Japanese codes
Battle of the Midway
o Allies learned of the surprise attack
o June 1942, bombing started
o Americans caught Japanese aircraft carriers while
they were refueling
 Damaged 4 aircraft carriers
Allies have to recapture lost territory
o August 1942, invaded Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)
o Six months of fighting in the jungles
 Hunger and disease
o Americans take control in February 1943
Allies were now fighting on the offensive after victories
Island hopping
o Isolate Japanese forces on bypassed islands.
o Successful, though costly
Securing the Philippines
o Filipino guerillas and American forces
 Took many months, Summer 1945
Tokyo
o March 1945 raided and set on fire
o 1 million people were homeless and starving
Two of the fiercest battles
o Iwo Jima
 Over a month of fighting
 20,000 Japanese fighters
 1,000 taken prisoner and the rest were
killed or wounded
Topic: War in the Pacific
MAIN IDEAS
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SUMMARY
 6,800 Americans killed
o Okinawa
 Deadlier than Iwo Jima
 2500 Kamikazes used, destroyed Allied carriers
 12,000 Allies dead and 36,000 wounded.
 110,000 Japanese troops dead and 80,000
civilians
Victories led Allies to plan for all-out assault on main
Japanese islands.