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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*
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