History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Bataan Death March, Naval Warfare, Philippine Nationality Law
22 Oct 2018
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Desperately needed oil to fuel their efforts and secure their island position. Naval warfare changed: submarines and aircraft involvement. The philippines were an american colony, initial air strike on the area called clark field, eliminated american air power in the western pacific, had a foothold on the main area. Bataan death march: fled out the american soldiers and philippine citizens. Japanese were now able to focus on the main goal, dutch east indies, began after pearl. Overall view of the people was unhappy with imperialism and the exploitation from other nations they have experienced, japanese new order would bring prosperity. Japan could still control the surrounding asian nations by controlling the resources/territory and splitting it for everyone (but only used it for the war effort), their co-existence talks were bullshit as their motives were selfish and exerted power. Limited role for actual armies, most occurred over water and air.
