japan and the pacific
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Japan and the Pacific. Ilwon Chang Roger Kim . Review. Japanese dreamed of empire Overcrowded Shortages of resource Conquering other countries Lead to World War II . Japan Seeks a Pacific Empire. In 1931, Japan started growing Took over Manchuria - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Japan and the PacificIlwon ChangRoger Kim
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Review Japanese dreamed of empire
Overcrowded Shortages of resource
Conquering other countries Lead to World War II
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Japan Seeks a Pacific Empire In 1931, Japan started
growing Took over Manchuria
In 1940, U.S. cracked Japanese secret code Japanese planned to
conquer over Southeast Asia
It threatened Guam, Philippine, which belonged to U.S.
Roosevelt cut off oil supply to Japan
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Isoroku Yamamoto
Hawaii, “a dagger pointed at our throat”
Planned attacks in S.E. Asia & Pacific
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval admiral, said that Hawaii must be destroyed
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December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl HarborPearl Harbor Though U.S. knew that Japan will attack, b
ut they didn’t know when or where would it be.
8 battleships, 2400 died, 1000 injured U.S. Congress declared war http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=2LJ7TDqHrmo
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Bombing on Pearl Harbor
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Japanese Victories Took over Guam & Wake Island Attacked Philippines Took over Hong Kong (Britain) &
Singapore & Indonesia Overall Japan conquered 1million mi2
which equals to about 26 land area of South Korea
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The Allies Strike Back Allies(Americans,
Australians) wanted revenge
U.S. sent 16 B-25 bombers to Tokyo and other Japanese cities under Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle Little damage, but raised the
Allies’ psychological points(morale)
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Allies Turn the Tide of War In May 1942,
American fleet intercepted Japanese strike force Port Moresby (can
easily invade Australia)
Allied airbase in New Guinea held back Japanese force
Leads to the Battle of the Coral Sea
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Battle of the Coral Sea New naval warfare –
airplanes from aircraft carriers
Allies lost more ships than Japanese
Japanese claimed victory
First time to stop Japan’s expansion
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The Battle of Midway Japan targeted
Midway Island June 1942, Japanese
code was broken Allies knew 150
Japanese ships coming to Midway World’s largest
battleship, carrying Admiral Yamamoto
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Chester Nimitz New commander in chief of
the U.S. Pacific Fleet Was outnumbered by four to
one June 4,1948 – planned an
ambush, hiding forces beyond the horizon
332 Japanese planes, all four aircraft carriers, one support ship destroyed
June 6 – the battle was over
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2jzE5k13Mw
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Douglas MacArthur
Commander of the Allied land force
“island-hop” and pass Japanese strong points
Seize not well-defended islands
Cut supply lines by using air power to starve Japanese troops
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Battle of Guadalcanal U.S. knew Japanese were
building huge air base on the island of Guadalcanal
Aug 7, 1942 – 19,000 U.S. Marines + Australian support attacked Guadalcanal
Feb, 1943 – Japan abandoned, losing 23,000 out of 36,000
Guadalcanal = “the Island of Death”
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