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Battle Worksheet Pacific

Allied Defeats 90% of US resources went to Europe In the first 6 months, it looked like the Allies would lose the war in the Pacific. Japanese took Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines Important Burma Road supply route into China from India was cut

Bataan Date: January 7th 1942 Theatre: Pacific Location: Philippines Winner: Axis Significance: 20,000 US troops led by Douglas MacArthur withdrew to Bataan, but eventually surrendered. Bataan Death March-85 Mile forced march of US GI’s who were tortured and eventually burned alive. MacArthur ordered, “I shall return”

Battle of the Coral Sea Date: May 1942 Theatre: Pacific Location: South Pacific Winner: Allies Significance: Entire battle fought with aircraft. Prevented Japan from successfully invading New Guinea and Australia

Battle of Midway Date: June 4-7 1942 Theatre: Pacific Location: Central Pacific Winner: Allies Significance: Allies broke Japanese Code, Japan lost 4 of their 10 aircraft carriers and 7 of their 11 ships destroyed, as well as 250 Japanese planes; turning point of the war. Japan no longer had hopes of invading US mainland.

Guadalcanal Date: August 1942-February 1943 Theatre: Pacific Location: Solomon Islands Winner: Allies Significance: Beginning of “island hopping”, eventually pushes Japanese back to Japan. First Japanese land defeat. Bitter jungle fights for 6 months.

Navajo Code Talkers

Battle of Leyte Gulf Date: October 1944 Theatre: Pacific Location: Pacific east of Philippines Winner: Allies Significance: Largest naval battle in history.

General Douglas MacArthur

Tokyo Bombing Raids Date: November 1944-March 1945 Theatre: Pacific Location: Tokyo, Japan Winner: Allies Significance: American bombers destroy 250,000 buildings and kill 83,000 in massive fire bombing. “Fog of War”

Iwo Jima Date: February/March 1945 Theatre: Pacific Location: East Pacific Winner: Allies Significance: Fighter planes now close enough to bomb Japan. Extremely costly one month battle

Soldiers landing at Iwo Jima

Okinawa Date: April 1, 1945-June of 1945 Theatre: Pacific Location: Okinawa Winner: Allies Significance: 50,000 Casualties resulted from fierce fighting which virtually destroyed Japan’s remaining offenses. Bloodshed influenced the eventual use of the atomic bomb to prevent further US casualties from ground assaults

Justified or Not Suppose you found that (30 students) Justifed Not justified 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11)

Hiroshima Date: August 6, 1945 Theatre: Pacific Location: Hiroshima, Japan Winner: Allies-Bomb dropped by Enola Gay Significance: First use of atomic bomb-”little boy”. 80,000 killed immediately; 100,000 injured. Japanese government still does not surrender. Soviet Union enters war against Japan on August 8th. Countless Japanese die later of radiation sickness and cancer

Nagasaki Date: August 9, 1945 Theatre: Pacific Location: Nagasaki, Japan Winner: Allies Significance: 60,000 Dead, Japan surrenders unconditionally on August 14, 1945.

VJ Day Date: September 2, 1945 Theatre: Pacific Location: USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay Winner: Allies Significance: Japanese formally surrenders to General Douglas MacArthur. World War II is over.