World War II

Holocaust Discovered after Germany surrendered in Nazis adopted the “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem: death camps German scientists experimented with the most efficient ways of killing large numbers of people Jews shipped to the camps, stripped of everything, hair shaved, separated from their families

Healthy people were put to work while the old, young and sick were killed “Showers” spouted deadly Zyklon-B gas Many others died from overwork, starvation, and disease By 1945 over 6 million Jews, Roma/Gypsies, Slavs and other “inferiors” had been murdered

Socials 11 Japan Surrenders

Allied Victory in Europe Germany surrenders May 7, 1945 War in the Pacific intensifies Japanese army still strong – vowed to “fight to the last person” U.S. Government decides to use the atomic bomb

Atomic Bomb Equal to t of TNT Manhattan Project: top-secret plan to develop a nuclear bomb Uranium from the Eldorado mine at Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada (owned by Canadian government)

August 6, 1945 In order to stop Japan, the U.S.A. decides to use the atomic bomb: President Truman (Roosevelt’s successor) gives the order to drop the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki U.S. Bomber “Enola Gay” drops the first bomb on Hiroshima, kills instantly, another severely wounded People vaporized, burned by radiation, crushed by collapsed buildings

Atomic Bomb Second bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later, kills people Power of the atomic bomb puts an end to the war Emperor Hirohito surrenders August 15, which marks the official end of the Second World War

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