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FRIDAY 2/15 PLEASE GO GET YOUR TEXTBOOK!! And take out your current event

How America Won the War

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?

Europe May 7-8, 1945

June 6, 1944 D-Day 132,500 soldiers moved from England to France How? –1,200 ships –10,000 aircraft

European Domination 7 days = 80 miles –How’s that compare to WWI? Americans, Brits, and French swept East –Who did they meet in Germany?

D-Day Clip

Japan August 14, 1945

Pacific War Who helped the US? –Australia –New Zealand –China Allies hopped across the ocean

Okinawa Clip

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)

Operation Downfall (Not Carried Out)

Direct invasion of Japan Estimated 1.2 MILLION US casualties –267,000 dead Predicted 10 MILLION + Japanese casualties Operation Downfall (Not Carried Out)

Manhattan Project The A-Bomb –600,000+ worked on it in some fashion August 6, 1945 –Hiroshima August 9, 1945 –Nagasaki

Atomic Bomb Damage Hiroshima Nagasaki Pre-raid population255,000195,000 Dead66,00039,000 Injured69,00025,000 Total Casualties135,00064,000

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

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

After the War Hitler – Suicide Mussolini – Executed Hirohito – Alive but powerless FDR – Stroke Churchill – Voted out Stalin – More powerful

“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.