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Do Now You are in your usual groups, just moved around Please get out your history notebook or in- class history notebook Please get out something to write with

War in the Pacific: “Island Hopping” By May 1942 the Japanese controlled much of South Pacific : under US General Douglas MacArthur, US began an “island hopping” campaign to prepare for war with Japan GOAL: recapture some Japanese occupied islands while bypassing heavily defended ones Islands able to be used as airfields and supply bases captured to advance closer to Japanese home islands

“Island Hopping” Route Tarawa (Gilbert Islands) Nov Kwajalein & Eniwetok (Marshall Islands) Jan.-Feb Saipan (Mariana Islands) June-July 1944 Guam (Mariana Islands) July-Aug Pelelieu (Philippines) Sept.-Nov Leyte Gulf (Philippines) Oct Iwo Jima Feb.-March 1945 Okinawa April-June 1945

Cost of Island Hopping Tarawa: 1,000 US and 4,800 Japanese killed Saipan: 3,400 US and 24,000 Japanese killed – Japanese civilians hid in caves and jumped off cliffs to their deaths after hearing rumors of American atrocities Philippines: 47,000 US and 300,000 Japanese killed/wounded Iwo Jima: 7,000 US and 22,000 Japanese killed Okinawa: 49,000 US and 109,000 Japanese killed/wounded