1. What early defeats did the United States suffer by the Japanese?

2. How did the U.S. aid the allies in Europe?

3. The Early Battles Ch. 20.2

4. Fall of the Philippines
-Dec.9th,1941 -retreat to Bataan Peninsula -78,000 POW’s -Bataan Death March *65 mile march

5. Doolittle Raid -Lt. Colonel James Doolittle -B-25 Bombers
-Mission = Bomb Tokyo
**Retaliation for Pearl Harbor

6. Change in Japanese Strategy
-Dissenting Viewpoints 1. Cut of American Supply Lines -Capture New Guinea 2. Yamamoto = attack Midway -lure remaining U.S. Navy to fight and destroy U.S. fleet

7. Battle of Coral Sea & Midway
-Coral Sea (May 1942) *Decode Japanese attack *USS Yorktown & Lexington -Midway (June 1942) *US decodes attack *Defends Midway *362 Am. Deaths *3057 Japanese Deaths

8. North Africa British & Americans vs. “Afrika Corps.”
Germans = Rommel “Desert Fox”
Defeats U.S. at Battle of Kasserine Pass
U.S.= George Patton
May 13, 1943

9. Battle of the Atlantic German Submarines Convoy Systems
Attack U.S. coastal vessels
Convoy Systems
Radar, Sonar, Depth-Charges

10. Battle of Stalingrad Soviets vs. Germans (May 1942) Stalingrad =
Industrial Center for Soviets
Oil Center for the nation
Nov. 23 – Soviet Reinforcements
Puts Germans on Defensive

11. Homework
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