Ch 32-2

Standards:

I-C.8 Analyze and evaluate the causes, events and impacts of World War II from various perspectives.

Objectives:

Explain how Japanese expansionism led to war with allies in Asia.

Describe Japan's early battle successes.

Explain how the Allies were able to stop Japanese expansion.

Summarize Allied battle strategy

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

EQ: Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? What were some of the most important consequences of the attack?

Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

Day of infamy

Japanese Victories

The Allies Strike Back

The Allies turn the tide

The Battle of Midway

Allied offensive

Vocabulary:

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanese admiral who decided that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed

Pearl Harbor

Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese

Battle of Midway

Sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces near Midway Island in the Pacific

Douglas MacArthur

U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific during WWII

Battle of Guadalcanal

Six-month battle on the island of Guadalcanal in which American and Australian troops defeated Japanese defenders