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Please do not talk at this time Sept 30
HW: WWII Test on Tuesday.HW: WWII Test on Tuesday.
I will collect the following on Tuesday:
Pg.22A: Blitzkrieg DBQPg. 27A: Churchill SpeechPg 29A- WWII European Front MapPg. 30A Video Notes ChartPg. 31A- Stalingrad DBQPg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon AnalysisPg. 33A- Pacific War Notes
Please get out a piece of paper and Label it: Pg. 33A- Pacific War in WWII
You may set up your notes any way you want to.
1911
1931
1937
19401942
19421942
1942
Hawaii!
Territory taken from the US by Japan
Pearl Harbor Attacked - Dec. 7,
1941
A date which will live in infamy!
• Japan wanted the natural resources like tin, iron and gasoline that the Americans had stopped selling them when the USA found out about what was happening in China.
• Japan saw American neutrality as a sign of weakness.
• They believed America would give up right away if attacked brutally enough.
Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot
USS Arizona, Pearl HarborThe only American
ships to survive the attack untouched were looking for the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. Japan had reason to think the Americans could be intimidated into staying out of the War.
Americans were not known for their great military prowess. Most people thought they chose not to fight because they weren’t any good at it.
President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War
BSQ: Why were the Japanese so surprised that the USA declared war on them?
Comparing Naval Power
Warships U.S. Fleet Japanese Fleet
Battleships 8 10
Carriers 3 11
Cruisers 24 40
Destroyers 90 112
Submarines 56 63
The Battle of Midway!
First Big battle between the US and Japan after Pearl Harbor
Allied Counter-Offensive:
“Island-Hopping”
Take only the lightly defended islands and skip the rest.
Japan still has to spend soldiers and supplies on the others.
Test
Questi
on
Alert!
US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,
Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]Iwo Jima is striking distance from Japan. Americans can easily fly bombing missions to Japan’s civilian centers from here.
ASQ: What advantage would attacking Japanese civilians give the Americans? Think strategically and emotionally.
Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb
Why does this man look so cheerful?
Why does this man look so cheerful?
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
70,000 killed immediately.
48,000 buildings.
destroyed. 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning & cancer later.
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
40,000 killed immediately.
60,000 injured. 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning& cancer later.
V-J Day (September 2, 1945)
• Japan surrenders
• MacArthur and others help write the new Japanese Constitution
• US forces the Emperor of Japan to tell his people he is not a God and not descended of the Gods. Japan is on its own. No “Divine Wind” will save her.
What psychological effect are the Americans trying to have on the Japanese people by making them surrender this way? Why?
What psychological effect are the Americans trying to have on the Japanese people by making them surrender this way? Why?
WW II Casualti
es: Europe
WW II Casualti
es: EuropeEach symbol
indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of
operations
WW II Casualties: Asia
WW II Casualties: Asia
Each symbol indicates
100,000 dead in the appropriate
theater of operations
Financial Cost of WWII
U.S. $288,000,000,000
Germany $212,336,000,000
France $111,272,000,000
U.S.S.R. $93,012,000,000
Britain $49,786,000,000
Japan $41,272,000,000
Direct economic costs of WWII $1,600,000,000,000
The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity
The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity
Nazis are put on trial for the new crime of “Crimes against Humanity”
All but one Nazi leader swear they were in the right until the bitter end.
Japanese War Crimes Trials
Japanese War Crimes Trials
General Hideki Tojo
Japanese military is also put on trial in Tokyo. Very few Japanese military leaders are convicted, though ample evidence of atrocities in Burma, Philippines and China are documented and presented.
Japanese later deny all these claims and remove them from their history books.
Please do not talk at this time Oct 1
HW: NO HW
Please staple the following and turn them in to the Turn In Box:
Pg. 27A: Churchill SpeechPg.22A: Blitzkrieg DBQPg 29A- WWII European Front MapPg. 30A Video Notes ChartPg. 31A- Stalingrad DBQPg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon AnalysisPg. 33A- Pacific War Notes
WWII Test• Take out a pencil and a piece of binder paper.• You will be taking a multiple Choice test for
questions 1 –
• The last couple of questions are short answer.
• When you are done, bring your test to the front of the room and work quietly on something else.
Index so far
Pg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon Analysis
Pg. 33A- Pacific War Notes
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