Japanese blitzkrieg 1941-Summer 1942•Attack/fall of Guam, Wake Island, Singapore by Feb 1942•Fall of Philippines

•May 1942•Macarthur to Australia

BataanDeath March

May-June 1942 Turning Points in Pacific•MacArthur attacks Philippines•General Nimitz at Coral Sea (May)•Nimitz surprises Japanese at Midway Island (June)

•Destroyed Japanese Aircraft Carrier Fleet

RED LINE= Defensive Perimeter of Japan

•Reached by August 1942

Island Hopping Aug 1942- June 1945• Aug 1942- Feb 1943: indicator of massive causalities in pushing back Japanese

•Japanese ordered to refuse surrender•Battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct 1944) destroys Japanese Navy•Iwo Jima (Feb 1945)- strategic bombing positioning

•Kamikaze use begins•Okinawa (June 1945)- closest island to Japan captured

•Japanese refuse surrender as Allies continually bomb mainland

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Truman wants to use the bomb– Atomic Monopoly

• What implications does this have for the post-war era?

– Save American lives

• August 6, 1945: Hiroshima– 78,000 Killed

• August 9, 1945: Nagasaki– 100,000 Killed