Look over your notes for this unit up until this

point.

Identify any questions you have or confusion.

Write those things down.

Agenda

• Quiz• How were the 2 fronts during WWII different?• Characteristics of Pacific Front

*Homework due on Friday*

Before we start…

Homework: Due Tomorrow

Pages 21-23 in packet

How would fighting here…

be different than fighting here?

Strategy in the Pacific• Breaking Japanese coded messages• Island hopping-– Pros and cons?

• 2 Important events:– Battle of Midway– Iwo Jima

After Pearl Harbor• American military in

Pacific was weak

• Japan took over many more areas, including Guam

• Japan then attacked the Philippines 1942

• Bataan Death March

Guam

Bataan Death March• Japan forces U.S.

and Filipino soldiers to march 63 miles

• Starved and beaten• Taken to prison

camps

• Japan had planned a surprise attack on Midway islands

• U.S. found out• June 4, 1942

Battle of Midway

• Aimed for planes refueling on aircraft carriers- why?

• Avenged Pearl Harbor

• After this, U.S. starts taking back territory from Japan

Iwo Jima

• Iwo Jima is outer island of Japan

• 1945 bombing

• Japanese fighters were “dug in”

• Guerilla warfare- fight to the death

• Difficult battle

How were the Western and Eastern Fronts different? Similar?

Create a Venn diagram in your notes to show your answer.