https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q Made with ♥ en-us 2018-02-02 04:57:34 UTC 2018-02-02 12:38:18 UTC hello@padlet.com 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365292 How did the military context of the Americans versus the Japanese affect the outcome of the Battle of Midway?]]> 2018-02-02 05:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365292 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365400 2018-02-02 05:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365400 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365412 2018-02-02 05:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365412 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365727 June 4, 1942-June 7, 1942
1.  US intelligence discovered Midway plans
2. American carriers brought to Pearl Harbor to prepare for attack 
3. US wrecks Japanese reconnaissance attempts 
4. US fleet is sent to surprise ambush location
5. Americans attack Japanese first but fail to make progress
6. Japanese shoot down 47/51 American planes 
7. Dive-bomb Americans finally find Japanese ships while Japanese are trying to rearm torpedoes
8. US sink/damage most of Japanese fleet
9. Japanese forced to retreat, but attempt to draw Americans out and trap them
10. US retreat instead of following Japanese 
11. American victory  ]]> 2018-02-02 05:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227365727 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366343 2018-02-02 05:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366343 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366708 American naval intelligence studied Japanese I-boat operations based on their radio traffic]]> 2018-02-02 05:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366708 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366793 Post Pearl Harbor: US Navy picked up lots of radio transmission from Hawaiian waters --->Japanese submarines forced to fully surface for full nights to send/receive messages with their home bases]]> 2018-02-02 05:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366793 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366933 Discovery of pattern: I-boats used up their deck-gun ammunition before leaving their patrol areas-->Midway was bombarded (January 1942) so US tracked their submarines using their transmissions ]]> 2018-02-02 05:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227366933 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367046 “Thus, fairly consistent routines of Japanese submarines and traffic analysis provided US Combat Intelligence with important opportunities early in the war to gain a better understand of the manner in which the Japanese conducted certain naval operations. American intelligence learned quickly” (175)]]> 2018-02-02 05:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367046 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367194 Americans noticed submarine-seaplane association that Japanese radio traffic had]]> 2018-02-02 05:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367194 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367241 Cryptanalysts broke JN25 (Japanese naval code)-->March 10th, 1942 discovered "AF" meant Midway ]]> 2018-02-02 05:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367241 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367353 Detected submarine picket station locations based on radio traffic so American ships (Yorktown, Hornet, Enterprise) could prepare for secret ambush]]> 2018-02-02 05:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367353 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367629 2018-02-02 05:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367629 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367645 “A first necessity was to make good the damage in Hawaii and to strengthen its defenses and those at Midway, to establish a succession of island bases to guard the Pacific lines of communication with Australia and New Zealand and to permit the transport of bombers and transport planes and the servicing of naval aircraft and shipping. Ships in the Pacific coast harbors were immediately requisitioned, reloaded, and sent westward with combat and service personnel, aircraft equipment, and other material” (43)

]]> 2018-02-02 05:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367645 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367723 "The possibility that the enemy would shift his strength northward to attack Midway or Hawaii prompted a regrouping of our naval units and a further reinforcement of the air and ground units at Hawaii, Midway, and other island outposts...it became evident that the largest concentration of enemy naval strength yet assembled for Pacific operations was headed eastward with the capture of Midway as its preliminary objective" (49)]]> 2018-02-02 05:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367723 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367966 2018-02-02 05:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367966 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367975 2018-02-02 05:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227367975 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368036 1930s: Japanese wanted expansion, which conflicted with American interests]]> 2018-02-02 05:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368036 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368099 Pacific War: Japanese wanted to expand, but Europeans prevented Japan's rise to power. Japan blamed this on racism, and both groups grew with aggression ]]> 2018-02-02 05:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368099 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368201 December 7th, 1941: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which was a surprise attack and declaration of war]]> 2018-02-02 05:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368201 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368264 April 18, 1942: President Roosevelt bombed Japan in Doolittle raids]]> 2018-02-02 05:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368264 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368414 “The greatest importance of the Doolittle raid lay in its immediate effect on the controversy still going on over the Combined Fleet plan for assault on Midway” (49)]]> 2018-02-02 05:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368414 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368427 “The result was that all remaining opposition to the early-June Midway attack deadline and other moot points of the Combined Fleet proposal promptly vanished, and Fleet Headquarters was enabled to proceed with the elaboration of the final plan of operations” (49)]]> 2018-02-02 05:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368427 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368443 Japanese Combined Fleet wanted Midway to be executed to destroy American carrier forces in retaliation ]]> 2018-02-02 05:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368443 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368702 April 9, 1942: American forces in Philippines surrendered and Japanese killed thousands of POWs]]> 2018-02-02 05:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368702 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368763 May 8th, 1942: Battle of the Coral Sea where US Navy managed to stop Japanese take-over of New Guinea/Australia ]]> 2018-02-02 05:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368763 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368897 2018-02-02 05:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368897 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368988 Japanese schedule pushed back due to loss, which caused Japanese carriers to miss Midway attack]]> 2018-02-02 06:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227368988 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227444572 2018-02-02 12:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227444572 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227444631 “As a consequence of my studies, I am firmly convinced that the Pacific War was started by men who did not understand the sea, and fought by men who did not understand the air. Had there been better understanding of the sea and air, Japan would have pondered more carefully the wisdom of going to war. And even if she had then decided that no other course was possible, many of the blunders she made could have been avoided. Because she judged the sea by land standards and applied to air warfare the concepts of sea fighting, Japan’s tragic fate was foreordained” (10)]]> 2018-02-02 12:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227444631 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227444968 Pre-Pearl Harbor: Japanese citizens knew Imperial Navy was building ]]> 2018-02-02 12:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227444968 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445090 1918: new Imperial Defense Policy states US as enemy #1 for the Navy and USSR as enemy #1 for the Army-->creation of a dual-standard policy ]]> 2018-02-02 12:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445090 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445347 Japanese Naval Academy indoctrinated the idea of southward advance, which also indoctrinated the idea of clashing with the US ]]> 2018-02-02 12:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445347 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445574 Firm concept created for the Navy: defensive fleet strategy with warships created to intercept and attack offensive US ships-->maxed the ships ammunition power and speed instead of defenses and radius of action ]]> 2018-02-02 12:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445574 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445819 Japanese ships designed with a flat deck to best suit Japanese seas. Everything was designed for superior ships in the specific operations they imagined]]> 2018-02-02 12:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445819 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445979 “Tireless effort finally produced a naval establishment whose confidence in its own fighting ability was expressed in the motto, ‘We rely not upon the enemy’s not attacking us, but upon our readiness to meet him when he comes’” (18)]]> 2018-02-02 12:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227445979 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227446112 Navy officials conflicted about going to war: some believed Navy would not last a year, while others thought they needed to fight back against Ango-Dutch-American oppression]]> 2018-02-02 12:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227446112 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227446382 US/Great Britain/Netherlands cut off oil exports to Japan (they were left with their 6,450,000 tons of reserve) which put Japanese military in danger of collapsing ]]> 2018-02-02 12:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227446382 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227447240 1. Japan should have guarded secret plans better
2. Japanese were functioning on bad estimates
3. Japanese scattered their task force with poor planning 
4. Japanese failed to remember their central goal and became too focused on the invasion
5. Japanese had poor reconnaissance ]]> 2018-02-02 12:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227447240 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227447756 Japanese wanted to draw out the American carriers to destroy them, which would then destroy a large portion of their Navy ]]> 2018-02-02 12:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227447756 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227448702 After the Doolittle raids in April 1942, Japanese submarines had to patrol near Tokyo and didn't arrive at Kwajalein until May 10th]]> 2018-02-02 12:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227448702 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227449029 “Thus, according to the design of Japanese plans, a flawless performance by I-boats during the preliminary operations of the battle of Midway would not in itself have prevented the disaster. While the face remains that Japanese submarines were inept and feeble in carrying out their assignments, nevertheless, the patterns of their radio traffic alerted US Navy intelligence to a forthcoming offensive operation” (186)]]> 2018-02-02 12:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227449029 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227449383 May 17th: US Triton sunk Japanese submarine I-64 on its way to Midway]]> 2018-02-02 12:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227449383 20mitrokostask https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227449603 1. The US was successful because they found out about the surprise attack beforehand with their codebreakers
2. Admiral Raymond Spruance used his cautious leadership skills to prevent being trapped by the Japanese
3. The US managed to get ahead when their dive-bombers finally found the Japanese ships while they were vulnerable
4. It was crucial that they stopped the Japanese Operation K before they saw the American ships]]> 2018-02-02 12:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/20mitrokostask/sr1r2az4062q/wish/227449603