War in the Pacific

Section 4

Japanese Advance (1941-42)

• With the goal of securing ____and ____ Japan begins an offensive directly after Pearl Harbor

• They take:• ____ • ____• ____• ____

Philippines Fall

• May 6th 1942 – 11,000 Americans and Filipinos surrender to ____, shortly after another 76,000 would be captured

• ____ were forced to walk 60 miles to the nearest railroad junction in tropical heat with little water – BATAAN DEATH MARCH

• Over 25,000 would die

Doolittle Raid

• April 1942 – B -25 ____ Bombers raid Tokyo

• Causes ____ damage

• Shocked ____, showed ____ could win

Battle of the Coral Sea

• Fought b/w ____ and ____ ships 70 miles from each other

• 5 day battle ended in draw

• New warfare as naval battles would take place without ships ever seeing each other

Aircraft Carrier

Allied Victories…..Finally!

Midway• June 4th 1942

• Waves of ____ bombers attack the Island that is vital to the defense of ____

• U.S sinks all 4 ____ carriers and 250 planes

• Last ____ offensive of the War

Guadalcanal• 11,000 marines vs. 2,000

Japanese soldiers in ____

• Japan fled the island after several months of fighting

• 1st Allied conquer of Japanese held territory

Iwo Jima • 25,000 ____ casualties

Okinawa• April – June 1945

• 180,000 allied troops take the island of Okinawa

• 2nd biggest invasion (Normandy was 1st)

What to do???

• Massive invasion of Japan would cost millions of allied lives

• Naval blockade and conventional bombing

• Demonstration of new weapon (A-Bomb) on a deserted island

Japan Surrenders

• ____ planes drop 2 atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a 3 day period

• Over 120,000 would die

• Sept 2,1945 ____ officially surrenders

COUNTRY Deaths (in millions

AXIS 8.0

Germany 5.6

Italy .28

Japan 2.1

ALLIES 28 million

France .59

Great Britain .36

U.S .4

Soviet Union 17.7

China 9.4