WWII in the

PACIFIC

AT HOME:

Propaganda & Pearl Harbor =

Hatred for Japanese

Thought: Japanese “diabolically”

clever.

OUR HATRED OF THE JAPANESE…

So what does America do?...

Hawaii & West coast Japanese-Americans “evacuated” War Relocation Authority (WRA)

• 110,000 Nisei put into camps• Taken from homes & jobs• Lost all property & rights• Barbed wire, communal bathing,

dirty, riots, Psychotic episodes

Can you tell which is a Japanese Relocation Camp?

Ronald Regan in 1988 signed congressional

legislation “apologizing”

$20,000 to each surviving Japanese American who had been in the camps

OUR STRATEGY IN THE PACIFIC…

“Island Hopping”

We Start from Hawaii….

June ‘42

MIDWAYUS surprises Japan!

Gone: 4 Jap. A.C. carriers 322 Jap. planes

• 6 months long

• 1st land invasion

• a 24hr war now

• Kamikaze's & psychological warfare

• Traps, Snipers, Blockhouses

• 24,000 Jap. die, • 1,200 US die

Aug ’42

GUADALCANA

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FDR Dies June ‘45

Harry S. Truman

Takes Over…

He was FDR’s VP

‘45

IWO JIMA

•Rarely saw a Japanese soldier• Jap = Below

•16 miles of tunnels•Strategy = “No Japan. survivors”

• Am = Above• 36 days• 22,000 Jap. Die• 25,000 Americans

•1-3 wounded/dead

•US gets a base

More soldiers won Medals of Honor at Iwo Jima than in

any other battle in US

History.

June ’45

OKINAWA

•Japanese Lie

•US wins!

•Japan can’t protect Itself anymore!

M.G.I.O

JAPAN Aug ‘45Atomic bombs dropped on

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Japan Surrenders Sept. ’45VJ-DAY