War in the Pacific Japan… Needed Raw Materials oil, gas, iron Walked out of League of Nations Invades of Manchuria Invades of China U.S. suspends oil sales to Japan

December 7th, 1941

The Empire of Japan Reacting to U.S. economic sanctions, Japan attacks the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. The U.S. was completely unprepared for this attack and most of the U.S. Pacific fleet was destroyed… except for the Aircraft Carriers….which allowed the U.S. to fight back.

Executive Order 9066 Issued 2 months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor All Japanese-Americans were to evacuate from the West Coast. Relocation of approximately 120,000 people, many of whom were American citizens, to one of 10 internment camps located across the country. American-born children were solely allowed to hold positions of authority.

The next major battle in the Pacific war was the Battle of Midway

February, 1942 Singapore Surrenders to the Japanese March, 1942 U.S. surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines April, 1942 U.S. prisoners were forced to march 60 miles to a prison camp in an ordeal that has become known as the “Bataan Death March”

General MacArthur Admiral Nimitz Nimitz and MacArthur planned to conquer the Japanese by “Island-Hopping” closer and closer to the Japanese mainland Several famous battles were fought in this manner- Guadalcanal Iwo-Jima

In April, 1945 U.S. President Roosevelt Died in office. Vice President, Harry Truman became the President Truman was informed of the development of the World’s first Atomic Weapon –The Manhattan Project Question: Use the bomb on Japan to end the war or to allow the Army to invade. Predictions estimated 500,000+ U.S. casualties in an invasion of Japan.

August 6, 1945 A B-29 named Enola Gay took off from the air base at Iwo-Jima to drop the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima