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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 . su p 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