Adolf Hitler in 1929

Midway Island Stalingrad

Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor

U.S.S. Arizona destroyed by Japanese bombers

USS West Virginia after Pearl Harbor attack

The South Pacific Theater

Destroyed B-17 bombers on the runway at Clark Air Field near Manila, December 8, 1941

Rapid success of Japanese invasions into Southeast Asia in the months immediately after Pearl Harbor

Bataan Peninsula, final holdout of the American forces in the Philippines

U.S. prisoners on Bataan

Bataan Death March, March 1942

Island of Midway

Midway Island Stalingrad

Midway Atoll from the air

USS Langley, the first American Aircraft Carrier

USS Enterprise in 1936

The USS Lexington, c. 1941

The Yorktown

The Saratoga

Japanese naval strategists and leaders

Admiral Chester Nimitz

Vice Admiral Nagumo Chuichi

Schematic map of the Battle of Midway

Battle of Midway

Grumman “Avenger” Torpedo Bombers

American Dauntless Dive-bombers

Artist’s conception of the dive bombing of a Japanese aircraft carrier

Japanese carrier Hiryu badly damaged and burning

Yorktown dead in the water and in flames

The abandoned Yorktown listing badly to port side

Yorktown flight deck after torpedo hit

Outcome of MidwayOutcome of Midway

Japan lost four of the six large aircraft carriers it Japan lost four of the six large aircraft carriers it had used to attack Pearl Harborhad used to attack Pearl HarborU.S. had lost only one of its large carriersU.S. had lost only one of its large carriersBefore Midway: Japanese 6-US 4Before Midway: Japanese 6-US 4After Midway: Japanese 2-US 3After Midway: Japanese 2-US 3Gave US the time needed to gear up its Gave US the time needed to gear up its industrial production:industrial production: Next two years, Japan would build 6 additional Next two years, Japan would build 6 additional

carrierscarriers US would build 17, along with 10 medium carriersUS would build 17, along with 10 medium carriers

Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1945

Japanese family being relocated to camps

(1942)

Hart Mountain, Wyoming; surviving Japanese barracks

Hart Mountain Memorial

Hart Mountain Memorial Marker

Japanese Relocation Camp, c. 1944

Hiroshima after U.S. atomic bombing

Devastation of Hiroshima

Fierce fighting on Iwo Jima and other Pacific islands

3) World War II: The Big Picture3) World War II: The Big Picture

Took the U.S. out of the depression and left it the most powerful economic force on the globe

By 1945, U.S. sole intact global industrial powerhouseGermany, France, England, Japan, etc., will be eager customers for U.S. goods for a decade or longerBegins an extraordinary era of American economic prosperity

Clearly establishes the U.S. as a major player in global power politics

Unlike after WWI, the U.S. does not retreat into isolationism By 1949 U.S. is engaged in WWIII with the Soviet Union, leading to

a seemingly permanent war-time footing

Centrality of the federal government in funding big science and industry is widely accepted

Manhattan Project demonstrated seeming necessity for federal role in the science of mass destruction

Creation of a Military-Industrial Complex