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WH - Chapter 32.2 - World War II - Section 2 - Japan's Pacific Campaign
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Japan's greatest naval strategist, called for an attack on the U.S. fleet in Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor
Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese bomb a US naval station in Hawaii bringing America into WWII.
Battle of Midway
turned the tide of war in the Pacific - the allies began winning.
Douglas MacArthur
the commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific, developed a plan to handle vast distances and hundreds of islands occupied by the Japanese.
Battle of Guadalcanal
The first time General McArthur's "island hopping" strategy was used and was a victory for the allies. The Japanese lost more than 24,000 of a force of 36,000 soldiers, the Japanese abandoned what they came to call "the Island of Death."
How did the Japanese plan to catch the European colonial powers and the United States by surprise?
They planned massive attacks on British and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia and on American outposts in the Pacific—at the same time.
In what way was the Battle of the Coral Sea a new kind of naval warfare?
Both Japanese and the Americans used a new kind of naval warfare. The opposing ships did not fire a single shot instead they used airplanes taking off from huge aircraft carriers. The Battle of the Coral Sea was something of a victoryfor the Allies had stopped Japan's southward advance.
What was General Douglas MacArthur's island-hopping strategy?
MacArthur believed that storming each island would be a longcostly effort. Instead, he wanted to "island-hop" past Japanese strongholds. He would then seize islands that were not well defended but were closer to Japan.
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