1. Japan’s Pacific Campaign
Chapter 32, Section 2
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2. Introduction
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and brings the United States into World War II

3. Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor

4. Japan and the United States
Japan develops a plan for attacks on European colonies and U.S. bases
In 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt cuts off oil shipments to Japan.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto plans attack on U.S. fleet in Hawaii

5. Route of Japanese Fleet Attacking Pearl Harbor

6. Waves of the Attack
First wave, 182 planes
Second wave, 171 planes

7. USS Arizona Memorial

8. Day of Infamy
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor—U.S. Naval base in Hawaii—on December 7, 1941
U.S. declares war on Japan December 8, 1941.
Japan also attacks Hong Kong, Thailand, and other islands

9. Japanese Victories Guam and Wake Island The Philippines
Japanese attack Philippine Islands defended by U.S., Filipino troops.
Philippine islands fall to Japanese in 1942.

10. Bataan Death March
The forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps
Beheadings, cut throats and casual shootings were the more common and merciful actions — compared to bayonet stabbings, rapes, disembowelments, numerous rifle butt beatings and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week in tropical heat.

11. Pictures of the Bataan Death March

12. Propaganda Poster in the U.S. after the Bataan Death March

13. Bataan Death March Memorial “The Battling Bastards of Bataan”

14. Gains in Many Places
Japan captures British holdings, including Hong Kong and Singapore.
Japan conquers the Dutch East Indies which is rich in minerals
Japan captures Burma. This threatens India, Britain’s main possession in Asia.
Japanese forces treat conquered peoples and prisoners of war brutally

15. Doolittle Raid
U.S. bombers attack Tokyo and other Japanese cities in April 1942.
(Here Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle wires a Japanese medal to a bomb, for "return" to its originators in the first U.S. air raid on the Japanese Home Islands.)
Raid does little damage, but shows that Japan is vulnerable.

16. Allies Turn the Tide
Battle of the Coral Sea—Americans stop Japanese advance, May 1942.
New kind of naval warfare—ships launch planes to fight each other (see next slide).

17. The Allies Strike Back The Battle of Midway
Japanese send powerful fleet to capture Midway Island.
Battle of Midway—U.S. destroy half of Japan’s aircraft carriers causing Japan to retreat.

18. An Allied Offensive MacArthur’s Plan
Douglas MacArthur—American army commander in the Pacific.
He plans to “island-hop” past strongholds in order to attack weaker Japanese bases.

19. Guadalcanal
Battle of Guadalcanal—hellish battle that ends in Allied victory.