WORLD WAR 2

• After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 the Japanese started their
attack of the Philippines the next day.
• On January 2, 1942, Manila was occupied.
• On Jan. 3, the Japanese High Command proclaimed the founding of
• the Japanese Military Administration, which established the Philippine Executive
Commission with Jorge Vargas as chairman.
DEATH MARCH

• from Mariveles, Bataan to San Femando Pampanga.

• About 70,000 American and Filipino soldiers died before and after the Fall of Bataan.
• Corregidor surrendered on May 1942 to Commander in Chief Masaharu Homma of the
Japanese High Command
 THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION

• On May 5, 1943, Premier Hideki Tojo publicly promised independence to the Filipino people.
• Philippine Preparatory Commission was organized
• The Philippine Constitution was finished on September 4 and was ratified by the
Constitutional Assembly.
• The election of the delegates for national assembly was held in September 20.
• On the 25th, the Assembly elected the Speaker and the President of the future republic.
Benigno Aquino was elected Speaker while Jose P. Laurel became the President of the Second
Republic. Jorge Vargas ended his term as chairman of the Philippine Executive Commission.
THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF

• On August 1, 1944, President Quezon died while in exile. Osmena was then sworn to
office in Washington D.C. as President of the Commonwealth.
• On October 20, about 174,000 American troops landed at Leyte with USAFFE
Commander Gen. Mac Arthur and President Sergio Osmena.
• On January 5, 1945, MacArthur landed in Lingayen. Manila, with all its destruction and
casualties, was won in February.
• On July 5, 1945, Mac Arthur finally announced the liberation of the Philippines.
• To force Japan to her unconditional surrender, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
destroyed by the Americans with their new weapon, the atomic bomb. On August 15,
1945, the Japanese finally surrendered to the Allied forces in a formal signing aboard the
USS Missouri. On August 17, 1945, Jose P. laurel, in Nara, Japan, dissolved the Second
Republic of the Philippines.