18.4 WWII in the Pacific Identify U.S. Battles in the Pacific. Assess U.S. And Japanese attitudes towards each other. Discuss the decision to drop the.

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18.4 WWII in the Pacific Identify U.S. Battles in the Pacific. Assess U.S. And Japanese attitudes towards each other. Discuss the decision to drop the atom bomb on Japan.

The Pacific Front in 1942

U.S. Generals during W.W.II Douglas McArthurChester Nimitz

The Pacific War, U.S. Navy bloodied but not beaten after Pearl Harbor.  Most ships repaired by Japan invades most of Pacific after Pearl Harbor

First Battles of the Pacific (May 4 th, 1942)Battle of Coral Sea  First battle with carrier- based aircraft (June 4 th, 1942) Battle of Midway  Major Japanese defeat.  Japan couldn't make up losses from battle.

Wartime Propaganda Both U.S. and Japan engaged in racist stereotyping.

U.S. Campaigns in the Pacific Island-Hopping Campaign ( )  Took over strategic islands.  Ignored others, U.S. Navy blockaded them.  Aimed towards Japan.

U.S. Campaigns in the Pacific -Liberation of the Philippines (Oct. 1944) -Lost to Japan in McArthur wanted it back! -Battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct. 23 rd, 1944) -Largest naval battle in history. -Japanese Navy destroyed. -Kamikazes

Last Pacific Battles -Iwo Jima (Feb 1945) -6,800 U.S. casualties, 21,000 Japanese casualties. -Many Americans thought cost was too high. -Okinawa -83,000 U.S., 100,000 Japanese casualties. -Many civilians told by Japanese army to commit suicide.

Invasion of Japan -U.S. hesitant for two reasons. -U.S. casualties (500,000 predicted) -Japanese civilian casualties, mass suicide -The Atom Bomb exists. -Created in the Manhattan Project. -To drop or not to drop?

Dropping the Atom Bomb -(April, 1945) F.D.R. dies, Harry Truman is now President! -Truman decides to drop bomb. -Argues he does it to save American lives.

Bombing Japan -Hiroshima -80,000 killed, 70,000 wounded -Nagasaki -35,000 killed, 60,000 wounded

Costs of WWII -Most deadly conflict in human history! million dead from war million civilians. -War cost $1 trillion+ dollars total. -U.S. Economy = half of world’s economy.