Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941

Do Now P. 706Turning Points Activity: Japan Attacks

Pearl Harbor

After Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939, the United States began to supply England and other allies with as much material as possible. Yet it continued to sell oil and scrap iron to Japan, despite that country's aggressions in China and elsewhere in the Far East. American shipments destined to help the Allies were lost to German submarine warfare, but material destined for Japan arrives safely.

Aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, crew members cheer

departing pilots.

A photo taken from a Japanese plane during the attack shows vulnerable American

battleships

December 7, 1941

Battle of the Philippines • December 7, 1941• Japanese invade the Philippine

Islands– Bataan – Corregidor

• Gen. Mac Arthur ordered to evacuate the island - Australia

“I shall return”

Gen. MacArthur promises the Filipino people that he will return to liberate the island form the Japanese

The Bataan Death MarchThe 60-mile march occurred

after the three-month Battle of Bataan, part of the Battle of the Philippines (1941–42)

The march, involving the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps

The Bataan Death March• was characterized by wide-ranging physical

abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon the prisoners and civilians along the route by the Japanese. – Beheadings– cutting of throats – bayonet stabbing– Rape– Disembowelment– rifle butt beating– deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water

Philippines • Slowed down Japanese

aggression the Pacific Theater

• Allowed for America to prepare:– Coral Sea– Midway

Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941

• Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the Japanese began their assault on Wake Island.

“The Alamo of the Pacific”

•Americans holdout for 15 days

•American relief efforts ineffective because of Pearl Harbor

•USS Saratoga unable to relieve Wake

American Casualties:• 130 killed• 49 wounded• 2 MIA• 33 Military & 1,104 Civilian POWS

Guam• Japanese invade on

Dec. 8, 1941

• Dec 10th Americans Surrender

• American Casualties:– 17 killed– 35 wounded– 406 captured