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WWII/Part III
One final look at Europe….
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D-Day (June 6th, 1944) was successful, Paris is
liberated by August of 1944.
January 26th, 1945: Soviet troops liberate
Auschwitz
February 4-11, 1945: Churchill, FDR and Stalin
meet in Yalta.
April 21st, 1945: Soviets reach Berlin
April 30th, 1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide
War in the Pacific
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Japan has a busy month in December
1941:
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
 Seize land near Singapore and invade
Thailand
 The invasion of the Philippines, Guam,
Burma, Hong Kong and Wake Island
 The bombing of Manila
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Japanese Empire, 1942
Japan in 1942
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Japan continues invasions around the Pacific
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In the largest bombing since Pearl Harbor, Japan
strikes Australia and Bali
February 23: Japanese attack on the U.S.
mainland. A submarine bombs an oil refinery in
Santa Barbara, CA.
Japan invades the Midway and Aleutian Islands
Battle of Midway: June 4-7, 1942. The most
important naval battle of the Pacific.
One Major Event of 1942
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The Bataan Death March
The U.S. troops unconditionally surrender on
Bataan (the Philippines)
 April 10th, the Death March begins. 76,000
Allied POW’s (including 12,000 Americans)
are forced to march 60 miles toward a new
camp, in the sun without food or water. This
results in 5,000 deaths.
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The Allies Surrender in the
Philippines
The Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March
The Solomon Islands,
beginning Aug.1943
Solomon Islands, 1944
The most lethal fighters on the island
Marshall Islands, 1944
A Solider Survives Two Days of Fighting.
U.S. troops land on Guam
July 20th, 1944
The Island Battles Continue:
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The Allied strategy was to start with the
Solomon Islands and to work their way
northwesterly toward the ultimate goal of Japan.
This is also known as “island hopping”.
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Other battles included: Guadalcanal, New Guinea,
the Gilbert Islands, the Marshalls, the Carolines, the
Marianas and the naval battle of Leyte Gulf.
Many of these battles stretched on for several
months.
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Details of Iwo Jima
February 19, 1945: by nightfall, 566
Marines were killed and 1,854 wounded.
 The Battle continues for 2 1/2 months for
an 8 mile square of land.
 By March 16, when Iwo Jima was
declared secured, 6,821 Americans and
21,000 Japanese had died.
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The Flag Raising; Feb. 23rd, 1945
Three of the flag raisers would later perish in battle
• This picture
comes to
symbolize what
it means to be a
Marine.
The Japanese style of fighting
• USS BUNKER
HILL hit by two
Kamikazes in 30
seconds off
Kyushu, resulting
in 372 dead and
264 wounded.
May 11, 1945.
On the way to Japan: Okinawa
• On Okinawa, just 350 miles from Japan, a Marine
dashes through Japanese machine gun fire while
crossing a draw, called 'Death Valley' by the men
fighting there. Marines sustained more than 125
casualties in eight hours crossing this valley. May
1945.
The Forgotten War
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China-Burma-India Theater
Some U.S. forces, mostly British commanders
and soldiers. Allied with commander Chiang
Kai-shek.
The Hump: an operation of the U.S. Air Force to
air lift supplies to support Chinese troops
Over 10 million Chinese will die as a result of
WWII.
The Beginning of the End
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Battles on Islands and on the sea continue,
U.S. captures territory.
January 3rd, 1945-General MacArthur is placed
in command of all ground troops
April 12th, 1945-President Roosevelt dies and
is succeeded by Harry Truman
May 8th, 1945-Victory Day in Europe (VE Day)
August 8th, 1945-The Soviet Union declares
war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
V-E Day: May
8th, 1945
(Victory in
Europe)
How it all ends….
• August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima is hit with
a 9,000 pound atomic
bomb.
• 72,000 people are
killed.
• August 9th, 1945
Nagasaki is hit with
another atomic
bomb.
• August 15th, 1945,
Japan unconditionally
surrenders.
V-J Day: September 2nd, 1945
Japan signs instrument of surrender on
board the USS Missouri
The Cost of War
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61 Countries participated-1.7 billion or 3/4 of
the world’s population was involved.
The war cost over $1 trillion, more than all other
wars combined.
The U.S. spent the most money.
U.S.S.R lost the most people with 20 million
deaths.
Total war deaths are estimated at 55 million, not
including the deaths from the Holocaust. 30
million civilian deaths and 25 million military
deaths
60 million people were displaced; either
homeless or refugees.
Back to the Beginning:
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“The Second World War affected nations
on every continent; caused the deaths of
60 million people, produced vast physical
damage, generated new forms of
genocidal mass murder as well as
weapons of mass destruction and
contributed to the influence of two
superpower nations”.