1. Japanese Victories
-Pearl Harbor
-Victories in much of the Pacific
-MacArthur retreats from the Philippines
“Bataan Death March”
-MacArthur pledges to return

2. America Recovers
-Bombing of Tokyo April 1942
-Coral Sea Battle
air power in the navy
-Battle of Midway, 1942
Adm. Chester Nimitz
inflicted great damage to much larger Japanese fleet
-Japan never recovered its naval power

3. America Recovers
-Bombing of Tokyo April 1942
-Coral Sea Battle
air power in the navy
-Battle of Midway, 1942
Adm. Chester Nimitz
inflicted great damage to much larger Japanese fleet
-Japan never recovered its naval power

4. America Recovers
-Bombing of Tokyo April 1942
-Coral Sea Battle
air power in the navy
-Battle of Midway, 1942
Adm. Chester Nimitz
inflicted great damage to much larger Japanese fleet
-Japan never recovered its naval power

5. Island Hopping
-as the U./S. built its naval and air advantage the Japanese fortified every island
-U.S. bypasses many island and takes weaker ones for airfields
-Guadalcanal, 1942
-Philippines, 1944

6. High Costs
-Japanese defending with every man
kamikaze attacks
-Iwo Jima, 1945
6,000 Marines die
-Roosevelt dies
-Okinawa, 1945
higher death totals
-warnings of what invasion would cost

7. High Costs
-Japanese defending with every man
kamikaze attacks
-Iwo Jima, 1945
6,000 Marines die
-Roosevelt dies
-Okinawa, 1945
higher death totals
-warnings of what invasion would cost

8. High Costs
-Japanese defending with every man
kamikaze attacks
-Iwo Jima, 1945
6,000 Marines die
-Roosevelt dies
-Okinawa, 1945
higher death totals
-warnings of what invasion would cost

9. Manhattan Project
-about 600,000 people worked in the project
-J. Robert Oppenheimer led the project at Los Alamos NM
-some scientists urged the gov’t not to use the weapon
-Truman made the decision to use the weapon on Japan

10. Ultimate Weapon
-Before atomic weapon was used, airdrops of leaflets urged Japanese to surrender
-Japanese leaders refuse to unconditionally surrender
-August, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima
-another bomb dropped on Nagasaki
-Japanese surrender
-V-J Day (Victory over Japan)

11. Ultimate Weapon
-Before atomic weapon was used, airdrops of leaflets urged Japanese to surrender
-Japanese leaders refuse to unconditionally surrender
-August, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima
-another bomb dropped on Nagasaki
-Japanese surrender
-V-J Day (Victory over Japan)

12. Ultimate Weapon
-Before atomic weapon was used, airdrops of leaflets urged Japanese to surrender
-Japanese leaders refuse to unconditionally surrender
-August, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima
-another bomb dropped on Nagasaki
-Japanese surrender
-V-J Day (Victory over Japan)

13. Rebuilding the World
-Yalta, 1945 meeting of the Big Three
-Creation of the United Nations
-Potsdam, July 1945
division of Germany
-Nuremburg Trials
war crimes
several leaders executed

14. Occupation of Japan
-General Douglas MacArthur
-reformed Japan’s economy
-established democratic government
-guaranteed basic freedoms
Constitution still exists as Japan’s government