Fighting in the Pacific
America has mobilized for war ✤ great wave of patriotism sweeps across U.S. ! ✤ 16 million serve in U.S. military throughout WWII Battles of the Pacific Date Ethnic Minorities/Women Serve ✤ Often minorities served in segregated military units! ✤ Women’s Army Corps (WAC) to provide office workers, truck drivers, lab techs for Army! ✤ U.S. Production Increases ✤ Had already been ramping up due to the Lend-Lease Act! ✤ Converting regular factories to war-supply factories! ✤ The “Production Miracle”! Army Nurse Corps ✤ ended the Great Depression Japan moves quickly ✤ ✤ After Pearl Harbor, Japan starts attacking islands in the Pacific! ✤ He underestimates the advanced Japanese weaponry! ✤ 75,000 Ally soldiers surrender May, 1942, to Japan ! Philippines - Gen. Douglas MacArthur - Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong Japan at a great advantage ✤ MacArthur can’t hold off Japan While Japan was island hopping, they were acquiring important war resources! ✤ ✤ ✤ ✤ Bataan Death March America needed a victory ✤ Doolittle Raid! ✤ supposed to be a night time bombing raid! ✤ instead they bombed Tokyo in daylight! ✤ Ended up crash landing in China! rubber! oil! airfields! ✤ ✤ See map pg 794 Not a huge Japanese casualty rate, but a boost to U.S. morale Battle of Coral Sea raises morale ✤ ✤ America’s excellent stock of supplies worked in their favor! Tide starts turning in the Pacific Theater on U.S.’ behalf Assignment - due Monday ✤ Do pg 798 #1-9, 13-15! ✤ Do pg 799 #1-3
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