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What early defeats did the United States suffer by the Japanese?

What early defeats did the United States suffer by the Japanese?. How did the Doolittle Raid help to rally public support behind the war effort? At what battle did the U.S. inflict heavy losses to the Japanese?. The Early Battles Ch. 20.2. Fall of the Philippines. -Dec.9 th ,1941

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What early defeats did the United States suffer by the Japanese?

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  1. What early defeats did the United States suffer by the Japanese?

  2. How did the Doolittle Raid help to rally public support behind the war effort? • At what battle did the U.S. inflict heavy losses to the Japanese?

  3. The Early BattlesCh. 20.2

  4. Fall of the Philippines -Dec.9th,1941 -retreat to Bataan Peninsula -78,000 POW’s -Bataan Death March *65 mile march

  5. Doolittle Raid -Lt. Colonel James Doolittle -B-25 Bombers -Mission = Bomb Tokyo **Retaliation for Pearl Harbor

  6. Change in Japanese Strategy -Dissenting Viewpoints 1. Cut of American Supply Lines -Capture New Guinea 2. Yamamoto = attack Midway -lure remaining U.S. Navy to fight and destroy U.S. fleet

  7. Battle of Coral Sea & Midway -Coral Sea (May 1942) *Decode Japanese attack *USS Yorktown & Lexington -Midway (June 1942) *US decodes attack *Defends Midway *362 Am. Deaths *3057 Japanese Deaths

  8. North Africa • British & Americans vs. “Afrika Corps.” • Germans = Rommel “Desert Fox” • Defeats U.S. at Battle of Kasserine Pass • U.S.= George Patton • May 13, 1943

  9. Battle of the Atlantic • German Submarines • Attack U.S. coastal vessels • Convoy Systems • Radar, Sonar, Depth-Charges

  10. Battle of Stalingrad • Soviets vs. Germans (May 1942) • Stalingrad = • Industrial Center for Soviets • Oil Center for the nation • Nov. 23 – Soviet Reinforcements • Puts Germans on Defensive

  11. Homework • P. 623 • #’s 1-8

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