World War II: The Pacific Theater

World War II: The Pacific Theater « Series from 2020

Series from 2020

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Genres: Adventure, Documentary, Special Interest

World War II: The Pacific Theater, produced by The Great Courses in partnership with HISTORY, takes you into the sweeping story of the American fight against the Japanese.

Taught by a distinguished military historian at the US Naval War College, these 24 vivid episodes chronicle the global trajectory of the war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the birth of the atomic age.

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The Road to War in the Pacific, 1931–1941

Infamy! The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

Japan Moves South, December 1941–May 1942

The Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942

Station HYPO: Breaking the Japanese Code

Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942

Midway: 10 Minutes That Changed the War

Guadalcanal: Jungle Warfare

Ironbottom Sound, 1942--1943

MacArthur, Halsey, and Operation Cartwheel

The Big Blue Fleet and American Industry

Battle for Tarawa: A Square Mile of Hell

A Three-Front Pacific War, January--May 1944

The US Leaps to the Marianas, June 1944

Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944

Bombing Japan: Fire from the Sky

American Submarines in the Pacific, 1944--1945

MacArthur Returns to the Philippines

Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944

Admiral Halsey’s Typhoons, 1944–1945

Battle for Iwo Jima, February--March 1945

Battle for Okinawa, April--June 1945

Kamikazes: Japan's Special Attack Units

Dropping the Atomic Bomb

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