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ThePacificTheater

Pearl Harbor

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941

A date which will live in infamy!President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Memorial

2,887 Americans Dead!Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Betty Grable: Allied Pinup GirlShe Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For

U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor,the Philippines [March, 1942]

Bataan Death March: April, 1942

76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.Bataan: British Soldiers

A Liberated British POWFarthest Extent of Japanese Conquests

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

Battle of the Coral Sea:June 4-6, 1942

Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942

Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942

Pacific Theater of Operations

Pacific StrategyTwo Pronged AttackIsland Hopping under Admiral Nimitz from the EastNavy and Marines, one island group at a timeMovement North to retake Philippines under McArthur (army)After Philippines on to Japan from the South

Allied Counter-Offensive:Island-Hopping

Island-Hopping: US Troops on Kwajalien Is.

Retaking of the PhilippinesMacArthurs Promise FulfilledBackground infoIn 1942 MacArthur left the Philippines as part of the American retreat/withdraw when the Japanese took the island. He left the people with this promise, I shall return.The plan was to leapfrog these islands and avoid Japanese strongholds and eventually place an attack on Japan.U.S. troops set up on islands without many Japanese soldiers and used air power to cut supply lines of enemy troops.

Battle for Leyte GulfOctober 23-26 1944, 178,000 Allied troops and 738 ships converged on Leyte Island (in the Philippines).When General McArthur waded ashore he said People of the Philippines: I have returned.Often considered the largest naval battle in history. Japanese threw their entire fleet into the battle for Leyte Gulf including a new flying tactic.

KAMIKAZEDivine WindThese were suicide-plane attacks where Japanese pilots crashed their planes into U.S. ships.424 kamikaze pilots did suicide missions and sunk 16 ships and damaged another 80.

Japanese Kamikaze Planes:The Scourge of the South Pacific

Kamikaze PilotsKamikaze is a Japanese word meaning, divine windResults of the Battle for Leyte GulfThe battle was a huge victory for the Allies. In 3 days of battle the Japanese lost 10,000 dead; 4 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, 6 cruisers, 12 destroyers sunk Americans only suffered 3,000 dead; 1 aircraft carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 escort carriers, 3 destroyers sunk USA crushed the Japanese navy and left it a weak force in the Pacific war that could no longer pose as an obstacle for American naval operations in the west

Gen. MacArthur Returns to the Philippines! [1944]

Iwo JimaBloodiest battle in the Pacific to this pointFebruary 1945Small pork chop-shaped island only 4 square milesAirstrips to launch at Japan and for emergency landing of U.S. planesMost heavily defended area in the worldIwo Jima

US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

Potsdam Conference:July, 1945FDR dead, Churchill out as Prime Minister during conference.Stalin only original.Harry S. Truman has the bomb.Allies agree Germany to be divided into occupation zonesPoland moved around to suit Soviets.

The Manhattan Project:Los Alamos, NM

Dr. Robert OppenheimerI am become death, the shatterer of worlds!Major GeneralLesley R. Groves

Tinian Island, 1945

Little Boy Fat Man

Enola Gay CrewCol. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

Hiroshima August 6, 1945

70,000 killed immediately 48,000 buildings. destroyed. 100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.Atomic BombThree elements of the atomic bombHeatBlastRadiation

The Beginning of theAtomic Age

Nagasaki August 9, 1945

40,000 killed immediately 60,000 injured. 100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

Hiroshima Memorials

V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

Japanese POWs, Guam

V-J Day in Times Square, NYC

ResultsofWorld War II

WW II Casualties: Europe

Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

WW II Casualties: AsiaEach symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

WW II CasualtiesCountry Men in war Battle deaths WoundedAustralia 1,000,000 26,976 180,864Austria 800,000 280,000 350,117Belgium 625,000 8,460 55,5131Brazil2 40,334 943 4,222Bulgaria 339,760 6,671 21,878Canada 1,086,3437 42,0427 53,145China3 17,250,521 1,324,516 1,762,006Czechoslovakia 6,6834 8,017Denmark 4,339 Finland 500,000 79,047 50,000France 201,568 400,000Germany 20,000,000 3,250,0004 7,250,000Greece 17,024 47,290Hungary 147,435 89,313India 2,393,891 32,121 64,354Italy 3,100,000 149,4964 66,716Japan 9,700,000 1,270,000 140,000Netherlands 280,000 6,500 2,860New Zealand 194,000 11,6254 17,000Norway 75,000 2,000 Poland 664,000 530,000Romania 650,0005 350,0006 South Africa 410,056 2,473 U.S.S.R. 6,115,0004 14,012,000United Kingdom 5,896,000 357,1164 369,267United States 16,112,566 291,557 670,846Yugoslavia 3,741,000 305,000 425,000Civilians only.Army and navy figures.Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps.Deaths from all causes.Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany.Against Soviet Russia; 169,822against Nazi Germany.National Defense Ctr., CanadianForces Hq., Director of History.Massive Human Dislocations

The U. S. & the U. S. S. R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20c

The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

The Division of Germany:1945 - 1990

The Creation of the U. N.

The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity

Japanese War Crimes Trials

General Hideki TojoBio-Chemical Experiments

7 Future American Presidents Lives Were Formed by World War II

The Race for Space

Early Computer Technology Came Out of WW IIMark I, 1944Admiral Grace Hooper, 1944-1992COBOL languageColossus, 1941