Where in the World War This lesson offers an introduction to WWII on the Pacific Front Our goal is to learn the basic geography of the Pacific theatre and analyze military events such as the ID: 566387
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World War II in the PacificSlide2
Where in the World War?
This lesson offers an introduction to WWII on the Pacific Front.
Our goal is to learn the basic geography of the Pacific theatre and analyze military events such as the
Battle of Midway
and
Island Hopping
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Sixty years ago, a generation of young Americans left their homes to fight a world war. That war was waged in two distant and very different places. In Europe, Americans faced hardship and danger. But they did so amid people and places that—while foreign—had important connections with their lives back in America. Terrain, weather, place
names, and
sometimes, ethnic ties were familiar links that provided some measure of comfort against the hardships of war.
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Americans who fought the Japanese in the Pacific fought a very different kind of war. Whether in the jungles of New Guinea or on tiny atolls in the central Pacific, they confronted environments and cultures with fewer reference points. Their war involved vast distances, isolation, and harsh, unfamiliar surroundings that placed special burdens on them.
Over
two million young Americans went to war in the Pacific. They served in places as remote and far-flung as the Philippines, the Solomon
Islands,
and Okinawa. Many struggled and died in places their families had never heard of. They waged a bloody war against a determined enemy
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Consider this:
When
the Japanese attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet on December 7, 1941, most Americans had never heard of Pearl Harbor and did not even know where it was.Slide6
Directions: Using map in your textbook on
page 371,
label the map. Once you have located the place, write it next to the letter. Slide7
Flying Tigers
page 341
American Volunteer Group in China
Volunteered to help the Chinese before America entered the war
Led by US Army Air Corps Veteran Claire Chennault
First Americans to fight
the Japanese
Won over 300 victories
and pilots received the
Distinguished Flying CrossSlide8
Bataan Death March Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQWdETwFACs&feature=relatedSlide9
Battle of Midway
page 370-371
Turning point of the war
Put Japan on the defensive
and the US on the offensive
US Pacific Fleet Losses
350 casualties
145 aircraft destroyed
USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier) and USS Hammann (destroyer) were destroyedJapanese Fleet Losses3,057 casualties
228 aircraft destroyed
Akagi
, Kaga, Hiryu (aircraft carriers) and Mikuma (cruiser) were destroyedSlide10
Island Hopping – Douglas MacArthur
Goal – to attack islands that were
strategically important
To get within striking distance of JapanSlide11
YOU TOO CAN BE A NAVAJO WINDTALKER!!!!!!
Use the Navajo Dictionary provided and translate this into CODE.
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end BOMBERS and FIGHTER PLANES to PHILIPPINES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86QB_WXYcqESlide12
Navajo Code Talkers
page 369 – 370 in textbook
29 Navajos created a
military code using a combination of traditional Navajo words and new words as needed
They started with 200 words and ended with 600 words
The code was never broken
and
was not declassified until 1968.
The Navajo Code Talkers received
the Congressional Medal of Honor
in 2001