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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
