WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Question
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Japanese soldiers, because they refused to surrender
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Allied prisoners of war, because the Japanese forced them to
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Allied soldiers, because it was essential to the success of the island-hopping strategy
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Chinese civilians, because they were forced off their land by the Japanese invasion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Three months after the start of the Battle of Bataan, the Bataan Death March began, forcing 60, 000-80, 000 Filipino and American prisoners of war to march through the Philippines. The route was about 65 miles long and stretched from the peninsula to the railhead inland (see below).
Detailed explanation-2: -Bataan Death March, march in the Philippines of some 66 miles (106 km) that 76, 000 prisoners of war (66, 000 Filipinos, 10, 000 Americans) were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Japanese intended for captured Filipino and American soldiers to march the roughly sixty-five miles from the Bataan peninsula to a railhead inland, from which they would be moved by train to a prisoner of war camp.
Detailed explanation-4: -The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75, 000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan.