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FRIDAY 2/15
• PLEASE GO GET YOUR • TEXTBOOK!!
• And take out your current event
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How America Won the War
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1. What were the causes of WWII?
2. Who were the leading men of WWII? (Allies and Axis)
3. What event brought the US into the war?
4. Why did we go to Europe before concentrating on the Pacific Theater?
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EuropeMay 7-8, 1945
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June 6, 1944 • D-Day
• 132,500 soldiers moved from England to France
• How?– 1,200 ships– 10,000 aircraft
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European Domination
• 7 days = 80 miles– How’s that compare
to WWI?
• Americans, Brits, and French swept East– Who did they meet in
Germany?
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D-Day Clip
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JapanAugust 14, 1945
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Pacific War
• Who helped the US?– Australia– New Zealand– China
• Allies hopped across the ocean
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Okinawa Clip
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Morality Time
• The War in Europe is over• Japan must be conquered• Here are your choices
– A) Conventional invasion of a country with a strong military that will fight to the death, killing an unimaginable number of your soldiers.
– B) Use newly developed weapons the World has never seen against civilians to shock Japan into surrender.
• (Map on next slide)
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Operation Downfall(Not Carried Out)
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• Direct invasion of Japan
• Estimated 1.2 MILLION US casualties– 267,000 dead
• Predicted 10 MILLION + Japanese casualties
Operation Downfall(Not Carried Out)
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Manhattan Project
• The A-Bomb– 600,000+ worked on it in
some fashion
• August 6, 1945– Hiroshima
• August 9, 1945– Nagasaki
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Atomic Bomb Damage
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Pre-raid population 255,000 195,000
Dead 66,000 39,000
Injured 69,000 25,000
Total Casualties 135,000 64,000
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Manhattan Project
• The A-Bomb– 600,000+ worked on it in
some fashion
• August 6, 1945– Hiroshima
• August 9, 1945– Nagasaki– Worth the cost?
• September 2, 1945– Official surrender
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After the War
• Germany– Hitler dead– Land divided– War crimes trials
• 12 executed, hundreds implicated
– America rebuilt it– Occupied until 1991
• Japan– Hirohito not a God– Land kept– War crimes trials
• 7 executed
– America rebuilt it• Wrote new constitution
– Occupied until 1952
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After the War
• Hitler – Suicide
• Mussolini – Executed
• Hirohito – Alive but powerless
• FDR – Stroke
• Churchill – Voted out
• Stalin – More powerful
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“You Dropped the bomb on me”
• Read the arguments both for and against using the atomic bomb on Japan.
• Which side gives a more compelling argument?
• If you were to be put in the spot that Truman was, could you make the call?
• Compare Truman’s decision to Obama’s and Bin Laden.
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