Philippines:
- December 7, 1941
- Clark field on fire-was an allied field
- Japan landed there and occupied parts of the Philippines
- Japan was there fighting a defensive was and moving things in the Philippines
- General MacArthur of US
- Caused US soldiers to die
- FDR told him to leave because he was doing so bad
- Before he left he said his famous 3 words “I shall return”
- American POW’s sort equipment for the Japanese before the death match; April 1942
- Japanese newsreel still
- American troops surrender; May 1942
- Americans and Flipianos on the death march; May 1942
- Around 100,000 POW’s had to march to one of Japan’s bigger naval bases were they received low rations, moved constantly, never treated if wounded.
- The wounded were either left to die or fellow POW’s carried them.
- In the 1st part of the battle Japan was definitely winning in 1941-1942
- In 1944 Douglas MacArthur came back with the great idea of island hopping
- Island Hopping; instead of trying to hit every island they would go from island to island sometimes skipping one just to get to the better and more resources
- Japan won the battle in 1941-1942
- We won the battle in 1944
Battle of Midway:
- June 1942
- America and Japan fought for control on the Pacific
- Found out the next plans on the Japanese militaries attack
- The codes name was magic
- Between Japan and Hawaii
- Yorktown, hornet, and enterprise were the US ships that ambushed the Japanese.
- Same machines and men who bombed pearl harbor
- Japanese knew nothing of the Americans ambushing them
- Unaware of the American aircraft carriers closing in
- At 8:20 am they are shocked to see an American carrier
- Decided to wait the Americans; which was a decision that changed the course of the war
- The torpedo launchers were all blown out of the sky
- 18 out of 28 on torpedo crew on enterprise
- 21 out of 24 on Yorktown
- One man survived from hornet
- Nugumo was ready to finish the fight with American
- Enterprises diving bombing carriers change source to hit the Japanese ships
- The Japanese decks were then bombed
- Eruption came up every 4-5 seconds as a bomb hit it
- Many Japanese died in the waters
- Many Japanese air carriers had nowhere to land with the ships destroyed
- USA losses:
- 340 killed
- Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown
- Destroyer USS Hammann
- 145 aircraft
- Japan Losses:
- 3,057 killed
- Aircraft carrier Akagi
- Aircraft carrier KAGA
- Aircraft carrier Soryu
- Another aircraft carrier
- 228 aircraft
- Turning point on the war in the pacific against the Japan
- Japan is no longer on the aggressive; they are just on the defensive
Yalta Conference:
- February, 1945
- Churchill, FDR, Stalin (the big 3)
- Germany would be broken up into 4 occupation zones (US, GB, France, USSR)
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan
- Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe
- Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United Nations
Potsdam Conference:
- July, 1945
- Indochina:
- Temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel
- Japan would surrender to Great Britain in the south and China in the north
- Germany:
- Goals of the occupation in Germany: demilitarization, denazification, democration
- Division of Germany(and Berlin) and Austria into 4 occupation zones
- Prosecution of Nazi war criminals
- Reverse all German annexations in Europe, including Sunderland, Alsace-Lorraine, Austria and the western parts of Poland
- Reduce Germany in size by approximately 25% compared to its 1937 borders
- Removal of the German populations remaining beyond the new eastern border of Germany
- Agreement on war reparations to the Soviet Union
- Destruction/Take control of Germany industries that made war materials
- Poland was recognized as a communist controlled gov’t
- The Potsdam Declaration: This ultimatum stated that if Japan did not surrender. It would face “prompt and utter destruction”
- 3 days after the conference was over, the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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