December 7th 1941 philippines- clark field on fire
- Pearl harbor before
- Japan was occupying the phillapines
- Japanese land in the philapene
- Japan was there fighting a defensive war in the philapines
- General Mcarther- made a lot of flaws and was awful, FDR personally told him to leave, US general, generaly in baton, he made many mistakes that costed many americans lives
- Before general left he was ordered to leave, he said he’d return, he left and was commanding troops at this time,
American POW’s
- Sort equipment for the Japanese before the death march, American troops surrender, they wanted only to surrender in the batton area, but he wanted them all to surrender, in the philapenes there were around 100 thousand marching. Constantly having to move and carri casualties, they would not treat you or you would be left to die unless an army budy helps carry you.
- Japan won the battle in the phillipenes
- 1944 douglas mcarther kept his promise and came back with an idea of island hopping, going to the most important island where there are more important recourses
- 1942 we lost 1944 we won.
- We fought because we needed the islands
Video
- They have teased out the next plans for the Japanese,
- The code name was”magic”
- Our mission is to ambush the japaese
- Japanese didn’t know that Japanese was already coming and was unawear
- 7 am still not knowing about our trap
- The scout plains saw the American ship
- They go back and wait prepair for battle
- Many of the American torpio bombers go separate
- They all pretty much die and get killed
- Didn’t even hit the Japanese with the torpedos
- The dive bombers, only hope. Cannot find the Japanese.
- Finally all ships are down, a lot die,
- The whole battle was five minuets and we won
Battke iof midway
- 340 killed
- Aircraft carriers USS Yorktown
- Destroyer USS Human
- 145 aircraft
- Japanese loss- 3,057 killed
- They lost all four carriers
- 228 aircraft
- Now japan is just defensive, no longer aggressive
-
-
Yalta conference
- Febuary 1945
- FDR, Churchill, Stalin.
- Germany would be broken up into four occupation zones
- Atalin promised free elections in eastern Europe
- Stalin promised to join war against japan after war with Germany was over
- Sanfrancisco to set up the united nations
Potsdam Conference
- July 1945
- Indochina- temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17thh parellal, japan would surrender to Great Brittain in South and China in the north
- Germany goals- trying to get rid of military, Nazis, wanted to divide Germany and Austria into four occupation zones, procecution of Nazis as criminals, Reverse all German annexations in Europe, including Sudetenland and more, reduce size in Germany by approximentaly 25% compared to its 1937 borders, removal of the German populations remaining beyond the new Eastern borders of Germany, agreement to wwar reparations to the Soviet Union, destroy or take control of german industries the produce weapons and stuff, Poland was recognized as being a communist controlled government. Three days after the Potsdam Conf. was over, US had dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Comments