Transcript Student participation is worth five points.

Class Dialogue – Discussing the Atomic
3/21/16
Bombs
• Rationale: Students will debate the decision to drop the
atomic bombs, demonstrating informed opinions
regarding these events.
• Student participation is worth five points.
____ 2 pts. - The students effectively presented the
information, fulfilling the requirements of the assignment,
and were able to be involved in an informed class
discussion.
____ 3 pts. - The students had their stance, for or against,
along with supporting points of information.
U.S. Aid and Geography
- 13 million boots
- 2/3rds of vehicles Soviet Army
used
- 5 million tons of food, enough for
a ½ pound ration for every Soviet
soldier for every day of the war
Battle of the Bulge
Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945
- “Operation Watch on the Rhine” –
- Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein (in German)
- Battle of the Ardennes
* Final German
offensive in WWII,
with an initially
successful blitzkrieg,
but then after a
successful Allied
counter-offensive,
Germans have few
tanks & planes left
Battle of Berlin
- April 20 to May 2, 1945
- Soviet Union takes Berlin, Hitler commits
suicide, and Germany surrenders the city
- Are these
ideas related?
- Are these
ideas
contradictory?
Troop Landings – Atolls
Japanese Strategy
• Make the war so horrible the US will give up
• Dug into tropical islands, built underground
bunkers and fortresses
• Suicide attacks
• Bleed the enemy dry as the Japanese rarely
surrender but die to the last man!
Battle of Saipan
- June 15 to July 9 1944
* Can now launch attacks against
Tokyo using new B-29 Bombers,
“the Super fortress”
* These attacks last from
November 17, 1944, and lasted until
August 15, 1945
* Also, now Japanese citizens
commit suicide
- Are these
ideas related?
- Are these
ideas
contradictory?
Battle of Leyte / Leyte Gulf
- Leyte, 17 October 1944 - 1 July 1945
- Leyte Gulf, Oct. 23-26, 1944
* Invasion of the Philippines
begins, the destruction of
Japanese Navy complete,
and beginning of kamikaze
attacks
3/22/16
Read Pages 522 & 523, reading about
“Terms for Surrender” and “The
Manhattan Project” answering …
- (1) What were the terms for surrender?
- (2) What was the goal of the
Manhattan Project?
The Raid on Cabanatuan
“Paced by two teams of Alamo
Scouts that would leave Guimba
[General Krueger’s Headquarters]
twenty-four hours in advance to
reconnoiter the camp, a force of
more than a hundred Rangers
would march a circuitous route of
about thirty miles (all of it through
Japanese-controlled territory),
sneak up to the stockade under a
cover of darkness, kill some 250
Japanese soldiers inside the
stockade, collect 511 feeble,
bewildered, ill, and in some cases,
immobile prisoners, and shepherd
them back to American lines”
(Breuer, 149 – William Breuer, The
Great Raid on Cabanatuan).
The Raid on Cabanatuan
- Jan. 28 to 30, 1945
- The “Great Raid”
- 511 POW’s, largely from the
Battles of Bataan and
Corregidor to prevent their
execution by the Japanese
- General
Douglas
MacArthur
personally met
the POW’s
upon their
return to
Guimba
The Raid on Cabanatuan
• Dr. Michael King. Leavenworth Papers, (No. 11), Rangers: Selected
Combat Operations in World War II. Combat Studies Institute, U.S.
Army Command and General Staff College: Fort Leavenworth, KS
66027-6900.
• The operation was immediately singled out for special comment in
the Sixth Army weekly G2 report, which described it as “an almost
perfect example of prior reconnaissance and planning ….”
• It was further held up as demonstrating “what patrols can
accomplish in enemy territory by following the basic principles of
scouting and patrolling, ‘sneaking and peeping,’ [the] use of
concealment, reconnaissance of routes from photographs and
maps prior to the actual operation, … and the coordination of all
arms in the accomplishment of a mission” (King, p. 71).
Philippines
Campaign
- Jan. to March,
1945
* Largest U.S. force committed
to one battle in Pacific and the
Philippine Islands are reclaimed.
- Are these
ideas related?
- Are these
ideas
contradictory?
Battle of Iwo Jima
- Feb. to March, 1945
- Establish closer air strips to islands
of Japan and eliminate last
resistance for possible U.S.
invasion of Japan
Read Pages 522 & 523, reading about
“Terms for Surrender” and “The
Manhattan Project” answering …
- (1) What were the terms for surrender?
- (2) What was the goal of the
Manhattan Project?
Battle of Okinawa
- April to June, 1945
- Bloodiest battle in the Pacific
Theater, also known for its
Japanese civilian suicides and
kamikaze attacks
Battle of Okinawa
- April to June, 1945
- Mass Japanese civilian suicides
- Traditional Ideas:
Bushido Code and
“Seppuku”
3/23/16
Class Dialogue – Discussing the Atomic Bombs
• Rationale: Students will debate the decision to drop the
atomic bombs, demonstrating informed opinions
regarding these events.
• Student participation is worth five points.
____ 2 pts. - The students effectively presented the
information, fulfilling the requirements of the assignment,
and were able to be involved in an informed class
discussion.
____ 3 pts. - The students had their stance, for or against,
along with supporting points of information.
Rules
• (1) Don’t raise hands; focus on what students are
saying.
• (2) Patience. Pauses are fine.
• (3) Converse with each other; respond to others
by name, mentioning each other’s points when
relevant.
• (4) Speak minimum three times.
• (5) Express disagreements in a courteous fashion.
• (6) Have fun, do your job, and learn something.
Conventional Bombing & Potsdam
- Potsdam Conference
- Conventional Bombing
Campaign over Japan
- Crazy number of bombs &
destruction
- Potsdam Declaration
** July 26, 1945
- No more “world conquest”
- Occupation of Japan
- Support democracy
- Disarm military
- Prosecuting war criminals - Sustain economy
- Withdrawal once established a
- Threatened “utter
“peacefully inclined and
destruction”
responsible government”
Read Pages, the statements of
President Truman and William Leahy –
522 & 523 and be ready to discuss …
- Who’s right, “Should American Drop
the Atomic Bomb on Japan?”
“Little Boy” and “Fat Man” are
unleashed
• August 6, 1945- Hiroshima
• August 9, 1945 - Nagasaki
• Killed an estimated 110,000
Japanese
• Injured another 130,000.
• By 1950, another 230,000
Japanese had died from
injuries or radiation.
Rules
• (1) Don’t raise hands; focus on what students are
saying.
• (2) Patience. Pauses are fine.
• (3) Converse with each other; respond to others
by name, mentioning each other’s points when
relevant.
• (4) Speak minimum three times.
• (5) Express disagreements in a courteous
fashion.
• (6) Have fun, do your job, and learn something.
Class Dialogue – Discussing the Atomic
Bombs
• Rationale: Students will debate the decision to drop the
atomic bombs, demonstrating informed opinions
regarding these events.
• Student participation is worth five points.
____ 2 pts. - The students effectively presented the
information, fulfilling the requirements of the assignment,
and were able to be involved in an informed class
discussion.
____ 3 pts. - The students had their stance, for or against,
along with supporting points of information.
What do we think?
• “I think it can be proven that the bomb was not
only unnecessary but known in advance not to
be necessary.”
• “The President fully understood and was
advised that there were other ways to end the
war.”
• Gar Alperovitz, Historian
Hiroshima Today
Nagasaki Today