The Rise of Dictators and World War II War in the Pacific
The Bataan Death March began at Mariveles on April 10, Any troops who fell behind were executed. Japanese troops beat soldiers randomly, and denied the POWs food and water for many days. One of their tortures was known as the sun treatment. The Philippines in April is very hot. Therefore, the POWs were forced to sit in the sun without any shade, helmets, or water. Anyone who dared ask for water was executed. On the rare occasion they were given any food, it was only a handful of contaminated rice. When the prisoners were allowed to sleep for a few hours at night, they were packed into enclosures so tight that they could barely move. Those who lived collapsed on the dead bodies of their comrades. For only a brief part of the march would POWs be packed into railroad cars and allowed to ride. Those who did not die in the suffocating boxcars were forced to march about seven more miles until they reached their camp. It took the POWs over a week to reach their destination. Bataan Death March
Hong Kong-1942 Wake Island-1941 Japan’s Early Victories Japan captured the Phillipines-1942 “I shall return.” General Douglas MacArthur Other Japanese conquests MalayaBurma ThailandGuam
Allies Turn the Tide Doolittle Raid Battle of Coral Sea Battle of Midway
Island Hopping
Battle of Guadalcanal 1943 U.S. Marines fought for six months and gained their first major land victory over Japan
Navajo Code Talkers NAMES OF AIRPLANES PLANES WO-TAH-DE-NE-IH AIR FORCE DIVE BOMBER GINI CHICKEN HAWK TORPEDO PLANE TAS-CHIZZIE SWALLOW OBS. PLAN NE-AS-JAH OWL FIGHTER PLANE DA-HE-TIH-HI HUMMING BIRD BOMBER PLANE JAY-SHO BUZZARD PATROL PLANE GA-GIH CROW TRANSPORT ATSAH EAGLE NAMES OF SHIPS SHIPS TOH-DINEH-IH SEA FORCE BATTLESHIP LO-TSO WHALE AIRCRAFT TSIDI-MOFFA-YE-HI BIRD CARRIER SUBMARINE BESH-LO IRON FISH MINE SWEEPER CHA BEAVER DESTROYER CA-LO SHARK TRANSPORT DINEH-NAY-YE-HI MAN CARRIER CRUISER LO-TSO-YAZZIE SMALL WHALE MOSQUITO BOAT TSE-E MOSQUITO
MacArthur returns to the Philippines
Kamikazes
Iwo Jima More than 23,000 U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded
Okinawa
Manhattan Project BeforeAfter
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
Japan Surrenders – September 2, 1945