The Pacific by Cassidy Jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i WW2 en-us 2017-05-09 00:11:44 UTC 2017-05-09 16:01:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Pearl Harbor cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170643982 - December 7, 1941-- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Japanese planned major attacks in British and Dutch territory at the same time to throw off the US
- sunk and damaged 19 ships
- killed 2,300 Americans killed
- 1,100 wounded
- request for war on Japan accepted]]> 2017-05-09 00:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170643982 Fall of Guam and Wake cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170646208 - Japan seized British colony of Wake and US territory, Guam]]> 2017-05-09 00:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170646208 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170646400 2017-05-09 00:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170646400 Japanese Victories in Asia cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170646852 - Captured Philippines 
- took Bataan Peninsula, Corregidor
- Hong Kong, Malaya
- Dutch East Indies
- Burma
- planned strike against India
- had 1 million miles of Asian land]]> 2017-05-09 00:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170646852 Allies Strike in the Pacific cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170647677 - America and Australia
- 16 B-25 bombers bombed Tokyo and other major Japanese cities
- didn't make a significant difference
- Doolittle's Raid: made Japan seem vulnerable for attack]]> 2017-05-09 00:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170647677 cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170651662 2017-05-09 01:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170651662 cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170651716 2017-05-09 01:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170651716 the Battle of the Coral Sea cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170651867 - May 4-8, 1942
- airplanes took off from huge aircraft carriers and attacked opposing ships
- new form of naval battle
- kept Japanese from advancing south]]> 2017-05-09 01:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170651867 The Battle of Midway cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170652784 - 1,500 miles away
- key American Airfield
- US knew about the attack
- When the first plane came, the US planes came and attacked from where they were hiding
- destroyed 332 Japanese planes, all four aircraft carriers, and a support ship
- turned the tide of the war for the Allies]]> 2017-05-09 01:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170652784 cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170653718 2017-05-09 01:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170653718 cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170654268 2017-05-09 02:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170654268 General Douglas MacArthur cassidy_jones https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170654375 - created strategy of "island hopping"
- targeted the island of Guadalcanal 
- fought for six months
- Japanese abandoned "the island of death"]]> 2017-05-09 02:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cassidy_jones/rct4617sas7i/wish/170654375