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THE PACIFIC WAR Campaign of island hopping. Japan at the height of power - 1942.

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1 THE PACIFIC WAR Campaign of island hopping

2 Japan at the height of power - 1942

3 Bataan Death March, 1942 Philippine Islands

4 Bataan Death March

5 Battle of Midway June 1942 http://www.navy.mil/midway/MidwayMap.html Turned the tide in the Pacific in favor of the Allies

6 Where is Iwo Jima?

7 Sands of Iwo Jima, 1945

8 Raising the flag on Iwo Jima

9 Iwo Jima memorial

10 Iwo Jima 36 days of combat 7000 US soldiers killed 22,000 Japanese- most of them killed

11 Okinawa April 1945 180,000 Americans landed Japanese fight to the end- 110,000 soldiers

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13 Japanese Internment Camps

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15 February 19, 1942: FDR signed Executive Order 9066 The forcible roundup of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry.

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17 To end the war in the Pacific Atomic bomb: Harry S. Truman August 6: Hiroshima “Little Boy” August 9: Nagasaki “Fat Man” August 14: Japan surrendered September 2, 1945: VJ Day


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