Download 25-1 World War II in the Pacific, 1942–1945

25-1 World War II in the Pacific, 1942–1945
ALASKA
(U.S.)
U N I O N
BERING
SEA
OF
OKHOTSK
Neutral until
Aug. 8, 1945
SEA
Attu
SAKHALIN
Kiska
ISLA
IL E
KU
SEA OF
JAPAN
Beijing
YELLOW
SEA
Chungking
BHUTAN
NEPAL
EAST
CHINA
SEA
Ledo
Lashio
FRENCH SOUTH
INDOCHINA
CHINA
SEA
MALAYA
(Br.)
SARAWAK
(Br.)
Singapore
BORNEO
RA
AT
M
SU
Equator
BR.
NORTH
BORNEO
RYUKYU
ISLANDS
U.S. air assault on Japan
Nov. 1944–Aug. 1945
LUZON
m
fro
MARCUS
ISLAND
WAKE
ISLAND
(U.S.)
MARIANA
ISLANDS
SEA
Philippine Sea
June 1944
Leyte Gulf
Oct. 1944
MINDANAO
Midway
June 4, 1942
BONIN
ISLANDS
Manila
PHILIPPINES
Palau
Sept. 1944
SAIPAN
CELEBES
Java Sea
February 1942
Amboina
HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS (U.S)
MARSHALL
ISLANDS
Kwajalein
Jan.–Feb. 1944
TRUK
CAROLINE ISLANDS
Tarawa
Nov. 1943
TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA
(Austr. Mandate)
BISMARCK
ARCHIPELAGO
NEW GUINEA
Bougainville
Rabaul
Nov. 1943–Aug. 1945
TIMOR
Papua
Aug. 1942–
June 1943
CORAL
0
400
400
800
800
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
(Br.)
1200 Miles
1200 Kilometers
AUSTRALIA
SEA
GILBERT
ISLANDS
(Br.)
ELLICE
ISLANDS
(Br.)
Major
SAMOA
Guadalcanal
Aug. 1942–
Feb. 1943
INDIAN
OCEAN
0
Honolulu
Eniwetok
Feb. 1944
GUAM (U.S.)
PAPUA
(Austr.)
Port
Moresby
.
U.S
Pearl Harbor
Marianas
June–Sept. 1944
New Guinea
June 1943–July 1944
DUTCH EAST INDIES
JAVA
Tokyo
Okinawa
Apr.–June 1945
PHILIPPINE
Philippines
THAILAND Oct. 1944–Aug. 1945
PACIFIC
Iwo Jima
VOLCANO
Feb.–Mar. 1945 ISLANDS
HONG
KONG
(Br.)
BURMA
JAPAN
OCEAN
Osaka
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
TAIWAN
Kunming
Burma Road
INDIA
R
KOREA
CHINA
.)
ISL
AN
D
KARAFUTO
MANCHURIA
N
( U. S
DS
S
ALEUTIAN
MONGOLIA
Dutch Harbor
3
194
U.S
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to A ply rou
te
ustr
alia
S O V I E T
NEW
HEBRIDES
(Br. and Fr.)
FIJI
(Br.)
NEW
CALEDONIA
(Br.)
battles
Allied advances
Allied air offenses
Allied nations
Neutral nations
Limit of Japanese control
after Pearl Harbor
25-2 World War II in Europe, 1942–1945
Axis Powers before
World War II
Extent of Axis control
early Nov. 1942
Petsamo
ICELAND
Finnish territory
annexed
by Soviet Union
FINLAND
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
NORWAY
LT
IC
SEA
945
.
liberated
Aug. 1944
MO
D
an
VICHY
FRANCE
occupied
Nov. 1942
AL
PS
19
D
No
SPANISH
MOROCCO
N S
MOROCCO
N T A I
M O U
ALGERIA
S
A
L
A T
FRENCH NORTH
AFRICA
(Vichy France)
D
CASPIAN
SEA
UKRAINE
CA
ROMANIA
ITALY
E
ga R.
4
94
Territory
RUTHENIA
annexed
HUNGARY by Hungary
Yalta
SARDINIA
2
VA
SLO
944
I
.
Dan u b e R
Rome
TURKEY
T
E
SICILY
R
R
Kasserine Pass
Feb. 14 – 22, 1943
A
July 1943
N
RHODES
E
(Italy)
A
TUNISIA
SYRIA
CYPRUS
IRAQ
(British)
LEBANON
CRETE
(Greece)
N
S
No
E
PALESTINE
(British)
A
TRANSJORDAN
v. 1
Suez
Canal
942
El Alamein
SAUDI
ARABIA
SE
500 Kilometers
EGYPT
D
250
LIBYA (Italy)
RE
0
500 Miles
OUNTAINS
GREECE
Oct. 23 – Nov. 5, 1942
250
SUS M
BLACK SEA
ALBANIA
(Italy)
liberated
June 5, 1944
Joined Allies Nov. 1942
0
UCA
BULGARIA
CORSICA
M
rc
KIA
YUGOSLAVIA ec. 1
SPAIN
94
Ma
IA
RAVI A
ube
PORTUGAL
v.
1
HEM
R.
AUSTRIA
SWITZERLAND
POLAND 4
4
R.
Aug. 1944
Elbe R.
Dresden B
O
Rhine
R
Paris
Od
er
besieged
Aug. 1942–
Jan. 31, 1943
h
June 6, 1944
NORMANDY
Warsaw
GERMANY
Stalingrad
J ul
y1
surrendered
May 2, 1945
il 1
Apr
BELGIUM
LITHUANIA
EAST
PRUSSIA
(Germany)
Berlin
London NETHERLANDS
Moscow
4
S e p t. 1 9 4
V ol
Dec. 16, 1944–
Jan. 31, 1945
D-Day
LATVIA
Danzig
Free
State
Aug. 1
943
DENMARK
Battle of the Bulge
REPUBLIC
OF
IRELAND
besieged
Sept. 1941–
Jan. 19, 1943
ESTONIA
BA
GREAT
BRITAIN
SEA
NORTH
NORTHERN
IRELAND
SOVIET UNION
Leningrad
SWEDEN
English
Channel
Allies
Neutral nations
Allied troop movements
Major battles/
Allied victories
A
25-1 Number of Military Aircraft Produced
96.3
100
Aircraft (in thousands)
Germany
Japan
80
85.9
UK
USA
60
47.8
39.8
40
29.4
23.7
20.1
20
5.6
0
8.3
3.2 2.8 1.8
1938
4.5
10.8
7.9
1939
11.8
2.1
4.8
1940
6.1
5.1
1941
Years
28.2 26.5
16.7
15.6
15
26.3
25.5
8.9
1942
1943
1944
25-3 The Manhattan Project
NEW HAMPSHIRE
VERMONT
WASHINGTON
Hanford
NORTH
DAKOTA
MONTANA
Production of
plutonium
(Du Pont)
OREGON
MINNESOTA
WISCONSIN
IDAHO
SOUTH
DAKOTA
MASSACHUSETTS
Production of
diffusers (Chrysler)
RHODE ISLAND
CONNECTICUT
New
York
Milwaukee
PENNSYLVANIA
NEW
Development of
Chicago
JERSEY
Plutonium program
IOWA
gaseous diffusion
(University of Chicago)
INDIANA
process for U-235
ILLINOIS
DEL.
separation (Columbia
Decatur
OHIO
Detroit
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
UTAH
Production of barrier
(Houdaille-Hershey)
COLORADO
Development of electromagnetic
process for U-235 separation
(University of California)
NEW
YORK
MICHIGAN
Production of pumps
(Allis-Chalmers)
WYOMING
Berkeley
MAINE
KANSAS
MISSOURI
KENTUCKY
WEST VIRGINIA
VIRGINIA
University, Kellex)
MARYLAND
NORTH CAROLINA
Oak Ridge
CALIFORNIA
Los Alamos
ARIZONA
NEW
MEXICO
Bomb design
and assembly
(U.S. Army)
OKLAHOMA
Alamogordo
First nuclear
explosion ‘Trinity’
July 16, 1945
Production of U-235
TENNESSEE
(Electromagnetic:
SOUTH
Allis-Chalmers,
General
ARKANSAS
CAROLINA
GEORGIA Electric,
Stone & Webster,
Tennessee Eastman,
Westinghouse
MISSISSIPPI
Gaseous diffusion:
ALABAMA
Kellex, Union Carbide,
J.A. Jones Construction Co.)
TEXAS
ATLANTIC
LOUISIANA
OCEAN
FLORIDA
PACIFIC
OCEAN
GULF
0
0
OF
100
200
MEXICO
300 Miles
100 200 300 Kilometers
25-2 Make-up of U.S. Labor Force, 1938–1947
60
50
40
Millions
30
20
10
0
-10
-20
1938 39
40
41
42
43 44
Years
Adult Women
Adult Men
Youth
Military
45 46
47
Unemployed
25-4 A Global War
Fremantle
INDIAN
Battle of El Alamein
October–November 1942
Halts Axis advance in North Africa
OCEAN
Battle of Stalingrad
July 1942–February 1943
Halts German advance in East
A U S TR A L I A
Calcutta
PHILIPPINES
CHINA
Brisbane
JAPAN
ASIA
AFRICA
Capetown
SOVIET UNION
EUROPE
ITALY
Murmansk
North Pole
PAC I FI C
GERMANY
German invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939
O C E AN
Freetown
Pearl Harbor Honolulu
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
San Francisco
ATLANTIC
NORTH
AMERICA
New York
OCEAN
UNITED STATES
Allied nations and Allied-controlled
nations
Axis Powers, including Japanese
occupations
Countries that were neutral
until the end of the war,
then backed the Allies
Neutral nations
Vichy-controlled areas
Axis-controlled areas
German U-boat operations
Major battles/Allied victories
BB E
CARI
Panama Canal
AN
SE A
SOUTH
AMERICA
Buenos
Aires