1. Honors World History Ms. Garratt
The War in Asia
Honors World History
Ms. Garratt

2. Japanese Imperialism Manchuria 1931 League of Nations
China – Rape of Nanking 1937
Attack Fr Indo-China
Co-Prosperity Sphere
Asia for the Asians

3. The US Before Pearl Harbor
What were US interests in the area?
Wake Islands, Philippines, Guam
How did US respond to Japanese conquest of French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
Yamamoto Plan
US intelligence
FDR Conspiracy Theory
Broke code
Broke radio silence

4. Pearl Harbor - Yamamota
“December 7th is a date that will live in infamy”
FDR addressing US Congress

5. Japanese Victories Guam Wake Island Philippines Hong Kong Singapore
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
Burma (Myanmar)
Propaganda called for Asia for the Asians
Called for Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

6. Philippines
Bataan Peninsula
Capital moved to Corregidor

7. Philippines

9. American Offensive Battle of Coral Sea – May ’42
Stopped Japanese offensive in the South
First battle fought completely by air
Battle of Midway – June ’42
Stopped Japanese offensive in the West
Doolittle’s Raids – Spring ‘42

10. Allies Strike Back

11. Island Hopping MacArthur’s military strategy Guadalcanal Saipan
Iwo Jima
Okinawa

12. Kamikazes New tactic used in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in Philippines
424 kamikaze’s dove to their deaths in this battle.
Kamikaze’s would be used for the rest of the war

13. The Atomic Bomb Einstein Letter to FDR Manhattan Project
First test – July ‘45
Potsdam ultimatum
Rationale
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japanese surrender to Gen. MacArthur