5-27-20
War in the Pacific
The war was being fought in Europe and the Pacific at the same
time. Although Europe and the fight with the Germans was view as
the first priority. Battles were also happening in the Pacific.
Lesson Plan - What you need to do.
1) Review the next two pages for an overview of what happened in
the Pacific theater.
2) Half way through there is a video link.
3) Watch video; Midway.
4) Finish reviewing Document 2a War in the Pacific.
5) Open document 2b Iwo Jima.
6) Complete document 2b Iwo Jima.
7) Send completed document 2b Iwo Jima to your teacher.
a. Mr. [email protected]
b. Mrs. [email protected]
c. Mr. Haratsarissubmit via schoology (there will be a week 8
a
assignment)
In the months following Pearl Harbor : Japan captured the U.S.
outposts of Guam and Wake Island and the British colonies of Hong
Kong and Singapore.
While American forces fought in North Africa in 1942, the U.S.
Navy began fighting Japan
U.S. General Douglas Macarthur is appointed the supreme Allied
Commander in the Pacific Theater. Eisenhower would be his
counterpart in Europe.
Macarthur is stationed in the Philippines and is ordered to
leave. The United States does not have enough troops in place to
protect the Philippines. They leave prior to the Japanese invasion.
Macarthur makes a vow that “I shall return.”
The Japanese invasion leads to the Bataan Death March. A brutal
forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war during early
World War II. 70,000 to 75,000 POW’s were taken prisoner after the
surrender of Bataan. The 63-mile march resulted in an estimated
7,000 to 10,000 deaths.
American spirits were lifted in April 1942 when eighty men all
of them volunteers for this dangerous mission.
Colonel James Doolittle led a successful bombing run on Tokyo in
a move designed to strike fear into the very heart of the
Japanese.
The Doolittle Raiders, Sixteen B-25 bombers took off from the
deck of the USS Hornet, led by (then Col.) Jimmy Doolittle. They
were to fly over Japan, drop their bombs and fly on to land in a
part of China that was still free.
The raid on Tokyo did two things; 1) it increased American
morale 2) More importantly, it proved to the Japanese high command
that their home islands were not invulnerable to American attacks
and causing them to shift vital resources to their defense.
Six months after Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway was a major
turning point in the war with Japan.
The battle of Midway flipped the war in the pacific into the
Allies favor. It was crucial that it happened towards the beginning
of the U.S. entry into the war.
It allowed The U.S. to get geared up and we out produced more
weapons than the Japanese
WATCH VIDEO; Midway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h699GimH04&feature=relmfu
MacArthur devised the strategy of Island Hopping to fight the
Japanese in the Pacific. The U.S. would “island hop” past Japan’s
heavily defended islands and seize the more easily-defeated
outposts. There, the United States could build landing strips and
employ air power to cut Japan's supply lines.
Our Goal was to get close enough to Japan to bomb it 24 / 7
Many big battles, one that allows us to achieve our goal of 24 /
7 bombing is Iwo Jima.
As the U.S. marched across the sea toward Japan, daily raids by
American B-29 bombers were destroying Japanese cities and killing
thousands of civilians. For Japan, defeat was inevitable, but the
island nation refused to surrender.
Complete Iwo Jima worksheet.
