Transcript War in the Pacific

OA 2
# 1 Explain Island Hopping Campaign (486)
Pg 485 Map Skills
# 2 & #3
#4 What event leads U.S. into the Second World
War?
# What was Operation Overlord? What was the
strategy?
Pacific Theater
U.S. vs Japan
•Potsdam
Conference –
make the
agreements in
the Yalta
Conference
official in Europe
•Atomic Bombs on Japan
•Conditions of surrender of Japan
discussed
Tokyo Bombing
Iwo Jima
22,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima at the beginning of the battle, only 216
Many committed ritual suicide
Kamikaze Fighters
J. Robert
Oppenheimer –
lead scientist of the
“Manhattan Project”
Colonel Paul Tibbets –
Enola Gay – Little Boy
- Hiroshima
Major Charles Sweeney
Fat Man -Nagasaki
Bockscar
Hiroshima – Little Boy
Nagasaki – Fat Man
Hiroshima
“Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it
against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl
Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and
executed American prisoners of war, against those who have
abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of
warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of
war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of
young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we
completely destroy Japan’s power to make war. Only a
Japanese surrender will stop us.”
(Public Papers of the Presidents, Harry S. Truman, 1945, pg.
212).
Surrender of the Japanese on the USS Missouri
General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito
Aftermath
• International Military Tribunal
– “War crimes” and “Crimes against Humanity”
– Nuremberg Trials – Nazis
– Japan – military officials
Aftermath
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Germany is divided
United Nation – an international organization
Casualties
United States and Soviet Union become the
sole super powers
– Cold War