 Goals Understand and depict the history of the Japanese Understand American and Japanese Battle Strategies Determine key Battles in the Pacific

 WWII Strategies/Battles

American Strategies  Europe Comes First  Overwhelming force  Precision/Saturation Bombing  The soft Underbelly of Italy  Bombing Runs 1944  Tuskegee Airmen  Dresden (24 hour bombing)  D-Day June 6 th 1944

US Pacific Strategies  Leap Frogging  Yalta Unconditional Surrender of Axis  Soviet Union Attacks Japan  Fire Bombing  saturation bombing  Wood Villages  Defensive  Atomic Bomb – more on that later

Japanese Strategies  Bushido Code  Kamikaze  Co Prosperity sphere  Ruthless and Mass Force  Bataan Death March

Major Battles  Coral Sea  May 1942  First ever naval battle, fought only by plane (ships never made contact)  Japan sunk more ships, but they did not take islands and many ships damaged  Midway  June of 1942 (six months after pearl harbor)  Code cracked, Japan ambushed  Japan’s first official Naval defeat since the 1860’s: they will never recover in war  Guadalcanal   First Major Offense at Japan  Goal: Save Solomon Islands and keep Australia open

Iwo Jima February 19 th - March 26 th Miles South of Tokyo (strategic importance) Japanese had three air strips Goal: Take Mount Muribachi Victory with almost 26,000 injuries and deaths Stepping stone to Okinawa

Okinawa  Spring of 1945  Part of the Japanese Archipelago  Largest and Final confrontation with Japanese  Used as a testing for mainland invasion  Month long bombardment followed by 180,000 soldier invasion on the 1 st of April  US will win at a great cost. 1/3 of island population (150,000) die