First we started talking about the powerpoint
Japan in WWII
-they captured alot of land for how big thier country was
-but the US had the philipines and was a good military base
-Island hopping
-going from island to island just hitting the important ones that supply the little islands and in the
end it effects all the islands
-the US would have to take over all islands and that would take a while
-kamakazi was becoming increasingly performed by the japanise
-the US was devoloping atomic bombs at the time all this was happening
-pearl harbor was not the only place hit, but the phillipines were also hit
-Doug McArthur was one of the US generals over in the islands
-Allied POWs were marched on the Bataan Death March
-60 mile forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino POWs to a POW camp
-was character by physical abuse and murder
-around 20,000 men died
Navajo Code talkers' Dictionary
-they may have been a big reason we won the war
-they were responsable for taking military orders and translating them into navajo code
-in 1982 they were getting more recognition for their efforts
Doolittle's Raid
-it was to confuse the people of japan
-and Americans needed a moral boost
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