Victory+in+Japan

Directions: You will read the information below and watch part of the "world in conflict." . You will then need to go back and replay to the four posts created by another student. Your posts must be fully developed, include evidence from the text and analysis. When you respond to the other students you must give an opinion of their post provide detail explanation of their opinion. Writing I agree is not acceptable!

Questions: 1. Give a detailed explanation of the American strategy in the Pacific. 2. Compare the American strategy of island hopping to the German blitzkrieg. 3. Do you feel the American could have the Japanese without dropping the atomic bomb? 4. Was it right for the Americans to have dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 5. How would the world be different if the bomb was not dropped?

Reading: After [|Pearl Harbor] the [|Japanese] quickly gained control over a huge area of the Pacific, from the [|Phillipines] to [|Burma] to the [|Aleutians] to the [|Solomons]. While the Japanese enjoyed the advantage of interior lines of communication, they had somewhat overextended themselves. Once the [|Allies] became strong enough to threaten their perimeter from several directions, the advantage would be lost, since Japan did not have and could not produce enough planes and ships to defend in force at all points.

The United States began a strategy called island hopping. The America Navy and Marines would attack Japanese and conquer Japanese controlled islands throughout the Pacific. Once the Americans took control of the island the established air strips and naval bases. These bases allowed the Americans to build and supply chain and conduct air raids on other Japanese controlled islands. Island allowed the Americans to gradually get close to Japan. Each the Americans took an Island the Japanese lost soldiers, planes, ships and territory.

Throughout the island hopping campaign American planes dropped bombs on Japan. These planes targeted Japanese manufacturing sites, making it impossible for the Japanese to build more planes and ships. Originally the United States has planned on using the island hopping stragegy to get close enough to invade the island of Japan however this was not necessary......





Video: You will watch archival footage from "The World in Conflict: Watch the video from 48:30-56:33