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Title: Pacific Theater


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Pacific Theater
  • Dec. 1941 Japan controlled
  • Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, Thailand
  • Jan. 1942 Japan controlled
  • Netherlands East Indies Burma
  • Battle of the Java Sea (crushed American,
    Britain, Dutch and Australian warships)
  • April 1942 Japan Controlled
  • Bataan, Manila
  • Bataan Death March
  • 70,000 survivors marched through jungle (beaten,
    shot and denied water)
  • 10,000 die

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Pacific Theater
  • Summer 1942 Japan looking at
  • India, Australia and U.S. Pacific Coast
  • Allied Forces
  • General Douglas MacArthur
  • Defensive Battles won
  • Battle of the Coral Sea (defended Australia)
  • Battle of Midway
  • Offensive
  • Guadalcanal (6 months)
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