1. WWII
Pacific Theatre
Mr. Wells – Winkler MS

2. Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
US vs. Japan
2887 Americans killed
Significance: U.S. declares
war on Japan – Dec. 8th
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant…” Admiral Yamamoto (Pearl Harbor)

3. Pearl Harbor Memorial
2,887 Americans Dead!

4. Pacific Theater of Operations

5. Singapore Surrenders [February, 1942]

6. U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines [March, 1942]

7. Bataan Death March: April, 1942
76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

8. General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942
The Burma Campaign
General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942
The “Burma Road”

9. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

10. Battle of the Coral Sea May 1942 South Pacific U.S. vs. Japan
First Japanese air defeat
Significance: Prevented Japanese takeover of Australia

11. Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942

12. Battle of Midway Islands
June 1942
Midway Island, Pacific
U.S. vs. Japan
Air/Sea Battle
Significance: Turning point in the Pacific Island Hopping to Japan
Midway Atoll, several months before the battle. Eastern Island (with the airfield) is in the foreground, and the larger Sand Island is in the background to the west.

13. Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

14. Battle of Guadalcanal Aug. 1942–Feb.1943 Operation Watchtower
Solomon Islands,
Pacific
Significance: protect convoy routes be/ U.S. & Australia

15. Battle of Leyte Gulf October 1944 U.S. vs. Japan
Largest naval/air battle of WWII & History
Organized kamikaze attacks
Significance: Japan driven out of Philippines

16. Gen. MacArthur “Returns” to the Philippines! [1944]

17. Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific
Kamikaze Pilots
Suicide Bombers

18. Battle of Iwo Jima: Operation Detachment
Feb-March 1945
U.S. vs. Japan
US victory: 6,000 Marines died
200 Japanese survived out of 20,000+
Significance: U.S. took most heavily defended Japanese base

19. Iwo Jima U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi
U.S. Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery based on the famous photo by Rosenthal
U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi

20. Battle of Okinawa: Operation Iceberg
June 1945
Last battle of WWII
Okinawa, Japan
“Typhoon of Steel” in Japanese
Fighting in caves/bunkers
30 US ships sunk by kamikazes
High casualties: 100,000 Japanese – 50,000 Allies (mostly US)
Significance: Seize Japanese island only 340 miles from Japan – Island Hopping

21. Potsdam Ultimatum July, 1945
FDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference.
Only Stalin remained
The United States has the A-bomb.
Allies agree Germany is to be divided into occupation zones
Poland moved around to suit the Soviets.
P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin

22. Hiroshima August 6, 1945 U.S. drops atomic bomb on Japan
(Little Boy) dropped by B-29 bomber Enola Gay
Casualties: 90, ,000
Significance: 1st use of atomic bomb

23. Tinian Island, 1945
Little Boy Fat Man
Enola Gay Crew

24. The Beginning of the Atomic Age

25. Nagasaki August 9, 1945 U.S. drops atomic bomb on Japan (Fat Man)
Casualties: over 70k
Significance: Japan surrenders
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 60,000 feet into the air on the morning of August 9, 1945

26. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

27. VJ-Day August 15, 1945: Official end of WWII
Emperor Hirohito accepted terms of Potsdam Declaration
Formal signing took Tokyo Bay on battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945

28. V-J Day in Times Square, NYC

29. The World
We Live in Today
Was Formed
by the Events
of World War II & its
immediate aftermath!