Mr Wells Winkler MS Attack on Pearl Harbor

Mr. Wells – Winkler MS

Attack on Pearl Harbor • December 7, 1941 • Pearl Harbor, Hawaii • US vs. Japan • 2887 Americans killed Significance: U. S. declares war on Japan – Dec. 8 th “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant…” - Admiral Yamamoto. Pearl ( Harbor)

Pearl Harbor Memorial 2, 887 Americans Dead!

Pacific Theater of Operations

Singapore Surrenders [February, 1942]

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.

The Burma Campaign General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942 The “Burma Road”

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

Battle of the Coral Sea • • May 1942 South Pacific U. S. vs. Japan First Japanese air defeat • Significance: Prevented Japanese takeover of Australia

Battle of Midway Island: June 4 -6, 1942

Battle of Midway Islands • June 1942 • Midway Island, Pacific • U. S. vs. Japan • Air/Sea Battle • Significance: Turning point in the Pacific Island Hopping to Japan Midway Atoll, several months before the battle. Eastern Island (with the airfield) is in the foreground, and the larger Sand Island is in the background to the west.

Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

Battle of Guadalcanal • Aug. 1942–Feb. 1943 • Operation Watchtower • Solomon Islands, Pacific • Significance: protect convoy routes be/ U. S. & Australia

Battle of Leyte Gulf • October 1944 • U. S. vs. Japan • Largest naval/air battle of WWII & History • Organized kamikaze attacks • Significance: Japan driven out of Philippines

Gen. Mac. Arthur “Returns” to the Philippines! [1944]

Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific Kamikaze Pilots Suicide Bombers

Battle of Iwo Jima: Operation Detachment • Feb-March 1945 • U. S. vs. Japan • US victory: 6, 000 Marines died • 200 Japanese survived out of 20, 000+ • Significance: U. S. took most heavily defended Japanese base

Iwo Jima U. S. Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery based on the famous photo by Rosenthal U. S. flag over Mount Suribachi

Battle of Okinawa: Operation Iceberg • • June 1945 Last battle of WWII Okinawa, Japan “Typhoon of Steel” in Japanese Fighting in caves/bunkers 30 US ships sunk by kamikazes High casualties: 100, 000 Japanese – 50, 000 Allies (mostly US) • Significance: Seize Japanese island only 340 miles from Japan – Island Hopping

Potsdam Ultimatum July, 1945 • FDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference. • Only Stalin remained • The United States has the A-bomb. • Allies agree Germany to be divided into occupation zones • Poland moved around to suit P. M. Clement President Atlee Truman the Soviets. is Joseph Stalin

Hiroshima • August 6, 1945 • U. S. drops atomic bomb on Japan (Little Boy) dropped by B-29 bomber Enola Gay • Casualties: 90, 000140, 000 • Significance: 1 st use of atomic bomb

Tinian Island, 1945 Little Boy Fat Man Enola Gay Crew

The Beginning of the Atomic Age

Nagasaki • August 9, 1945 • U. S. drops atomic bomb on Japan (Fat Man) • Casualties: over 70 k • Significance: Japan surrenders Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 60, 000 feet into the air on the morning of August 9, 1945

Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

VJ-Day • August 15, 1945: Official end of WWII • Emperor Hirohito accepted terms of Potsdam Declaration • Formal signing took place @ Tokyo Bay on battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945

V-J Day in Times Square, NYC