The proximity fuse is an explosive device that

World War II The War on the Pacific Front

What led the U. S. to declare war on Japan? Long-term causes: • Conflict

• General Douglas Mac. Arthur – Commander of U. S. Army in East

The Bataan Death March • Philippines • 70, 000 Allied troops surrendered • 7,

Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942 • Proved the Pacific battle would be

Battle of Midway • American naval base in the Central Pacific • Vital to

Guadalcanal “It was beautiful, but beneath loveliness…Guadalcanal was a mass of slops and stinks

https: //www. youtube. com/watch ? v=bvs. I_0 E 8 ep 0 • Kamikazes did

Iwo Jima, Feb. -March 1945 • 36 days of fighting • 2, 000+ marines

Okinawa, April 1945 • Most costly operation in the Pacific • 50, 000 casualties

Manhattan Project • Albert Einstein • J. Robert Oppenheimer – Los Alamos, New Mexico

Harry Truman • Axis Powers had nuclear scientists • Invasion of Japan could cost

• August 6, 1945 - atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima • 60, 000

• 8/14/45 - Japanese forces surrender • VJ Day- 9/2/45

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The proximity fuse is an explosive device that automatically explodes when it is close to its target.

World War II The War on the Pacific Front

What led the U. S. to declare war on Japan? Long-term causes: • Conflict over power in Asia & the Pacific • U. S. supported China • U. S. embargo against Japan Immediate causes: • Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor

• General Douglas Mac. Arthur – Commander of U. S. Army in East Asia • March 1942 – “I shall return”

The Bataan Death March • Philippines • 70, 000 Allied troops surrendered • 7, 000+ troops died on the 60 mile march inland – Violated the Geneva Convention of 1929

Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942 • Proved the Pacific battle would be won or lost on the strength of aircraft carriers & planes

Battle of Midway • American naval base in the Central Pacific • Vital to defense of Hawaii • Code-breakers intercepted Japanese messages • Turning point in the war; crippled Japanese navy

Guadalcanal “It was beautiful, but beneath loveliness…Guadalcanal was a mass of slops and stinks and pestilence; of scumcrusted lagoons and vile swamps inhabited by giant crocodiles…of ants that bite like fire, of tree leeches that fall, fasten and suck; scorpions, of centipedes…of snakes and land crabs, rats and bats…” -Robert Leckie, Delivered From Evil: The Saga of World War II

“I have returned” (Leyte, Oct. 1944)

https: //www. youtube. com/watch ? v=bvs. I_0 E 8 ep 0 • Kamikazes did not prevent Mac. Arthur from retaking the Philippines

Iwo Jima, Feb. -March 1945 • 36 days of fighting • 2, 000+ marines died • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=8 rfs. RN eiing

Okinawa, April 1945 • Most costly operation in the Pacific • 50, 000 casualties • Banzai charges

Attacks on Tokyo

Science & Technology

Manhattan Project • Albert Einstein • J. Robert Oppenheimer – Los Alamos, New Mexico “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Worlds. ”

Harry Truman • Axis Powers had nuclear scientists • Invasion of Japan could cost 1, 000 lives 1945 -1953

• August 6, 1945 - atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima • 60, 000 dead or missing • August 9 - Soviet Union declared war on Japan • U. S. dropped second bomb on Nagasaki 35, 000 dead

• 8/14/45 - Japanese forces surrender • VJ Day- 9/2/45