The Pacific Theater
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Transcript of The Pacific Theater
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Pearl Harbor
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot
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Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941
A date which will live in infamy!
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President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War
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USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor Memorial
2,887 Americans Dead!
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Pacific Theater of Operations
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Japanese Internment Camps – In Canada!
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“Tokyo Rose”
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Paying for the War
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Paying for the War
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Paying for the War
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Betty Grable: Allied Pinup Girl
She Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For
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Singapore Surrenders[February, 1942]
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U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor,
the Philippines [March, 1942]
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Bataan Death March: April, 1942
76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to
POW camps in the Philippines.
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Bataan: British Soldiers
A Liberated British
POW
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The Burma Campaign
The “Burma Road”
General Stilwell Leaving Burma,
1942
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Allied Counter-Offensive:“Island-Hopping”
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“Island-Hopping”: US Troops on Kwajalien Island
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Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests
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Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942
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Battle of the Coral Sea:May 7-8, 1942
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Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942
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Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942
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Japanese Kamikaze Planes:
The Scourge of the South Pacific
Kamikaze Pilots
Suicide Bombers
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Gen. MacArthur “Returns” to the
Philippines! [1944]
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US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,
Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]
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Potsdam Conference:July, 1945
y FDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference.
y Stalin only original.y The United States
has the A-bomb.y Allies agree Germany
is to be divided into occupation zones
y Poland moved around to suit the Soviets.
P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin
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The Manhattan Project:Los Alamos,
NM
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
I am become death,
the shatterer of worlds!
Major GeneralLesley R. Groves
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Tinian Island, 1945
Little Boy Fat Man
Enola Gay Crew
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Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb
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Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
© 70,000 killed immediately.
© 48,000 buildings.
destroyed.© 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning & cancer later.
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The Beginning of theAtomic Age
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Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
©40,000 killed immediately.
©60,000 injured.©100,000s died of
radiation poisoning& cancer later.
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Japanese A-Bomb Survivors
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Hiroshima Memorials
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V-J Day (September 2, 1945)
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Japanese POWs, Guam
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V-J Day in Times Square, NYC
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WW II Casualties: Asia
Each symbol indicates 100,000
dead in the appropriate theater
of operations