HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI Japan’s refusal to surrender and fight to the death resulted in hundreds of thousands of American deaths. Along with Pearl Harbor, this wet America’s appetite for revenge against Japan and its people.

Kamikaze The Japanese strategy of deliberately crashing a bomb-filled plane into a target.

In April 12th of 1944 Franklin D In April 12th of 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt died, making his Vice President, Harry Truman president of the United States.

“Fat Man” (2nd) “Little Boy” (1st) The Manhattan Project was the name of the secret program that had developed the Atomic Bomb. It was located at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The first atomic bomb is ready for testing on July 16, 1945. (codename Trinity) It cost $2 Billion.

V-E DAY Germany Surrenders to the Allies on May 8th 1945. The Japanese have not surrendered, but continue to fight against the Americans

The time and place is set. Hiroshima Nagasaki (August 6, 1945) (August 9, 1945)

The Death Toll. 130,000 70,000 100,000 Hiroshima Nagasaki Initial Deaths 130,000 70,000 After–effects 100,000 Total from both Approximately 300,000

Japanese Surrender: V-J Day. (Sept 2, 1945) General Douglas MacArthur, the supreme allied commander of the Pacific campaign accepts the terms of surrender.

WHY DID WE USE THE ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN? Desire for revenge: The Unites States was humiliated at Pearl Harbor . In addition we lost hundreds of thousands of men in the war against the Japanese. (approx 300,000) End the war and save American & Japanese lives: The Japanese refusal to surrender and the cost of the war forced Truman to plan an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Such an invasion would have cost approximately a million American lives and millions of Japanese due to civilian preparation for the invasion.

3. $2 Billion Investment in the Manhattan Project: The Manhattan project took over 3 years and cost an estimated $2 billion dollars. The price and the successful results of the Trinity test forced Truman to use the bomb on the enemy. If he had not done so, most historians believe he would have been impeached. 4. Stop the Spread of the Soviet Union & Communism: With the defeat of Germany the Soviet Union was positioned to dominate Eastern Europe and spread communism into China, Korea and ultimately Japan. The use of the atomic bombs curtailed Stalin’s plans to spread communism around the world.

Nuremburg Trials Trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II. A court set up by the victorious Allies tried twenty two former officials, including Hermann Goering, in Nuremberg, Germany, for war crimes. Goering and  eleven others  were sentenced to death. Many of the highest officials  of  Nazi  Germany,  including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and  Heinrich  Himmler,  had  committed suicide before they could be brought to trial, and Goering killed  himself before he could be executed.

ted Korematsu v. United States (1944) was a controversial 6–3 decision of the Supreme Court that affirmed the conviction of a Japanese American citizen who violated an exclusion order that barred all persons of Japanese ancestry from designated military areas during World War II.