Teaching Resources
The Pacific Theater of World War II Must Not Be Forgotten.
The Pacific Theater of WWII refers to the Asiatic-Pacific front of the war, in which the major Axis power was Imperial Japan. The 35-year occupation of Korea, invasions across Southeast Asia, and China’s desperate fight against the Japanese Empire often go unnoticed by American students, yet prejudices and tensions caused by the conflict persist today. The history of the Pacific War has a profound impact on many Asian American students, despite its exclusion from most American WWII curricula.